catapulte
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,328
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
catapulte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Machine de guerre dont les anciens se servaient pour lancer des pierres ou des traits. Pronounced \ka.ta.pylt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catapulte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ta.pylt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for catapulte is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ta.pylt\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,328 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for catapulte, with forms such as "actapulte", "caatpulte", and "cataplute". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is catapulte, spelled C-A-T-A-P-U-L-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Machine de guerre dont les anciens se servaient pour lancer des pierres ou des traits.
- 2Appareil rappelant la forme de la catapulte et servant à lancer des objets divers.
- 3Engin qui sert à lancer un avion, à partir d’un porte-avions ou d’un autre navire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actapulte,caatpulte,cataplute,catappulte,catapulet,catapullte,catapultte,cataputle,catauplte,catpaulte,cattapulte,ccatapulte,ctaapulte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "catapulte"
Frequency rank: #43,328 in French
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