cataracte
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,694
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
cataracte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chute d’eau importante d’un fleuve ou d’une grande rivière. Pronounced \ka.ta.ʁakt\. Often confused with cataractes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cataracte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ta.ʁakt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cataracte is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ta.ʁakt\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,694 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 cataracte, with forms such as "actaracte", "caatracte", and "cataarcte". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cataractes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cataracte, spelled C-A-T-A-R-A-C-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chute d’eau importante d’un fleuve ou d’une grande rivière.
- 2Grande abondance soudaine et puissante, notamment de pluie, mais aussi de sons, de lumière ou de paroles.
- 3Opacification partielle ou totale du cristallin de l’œil, entraînant une diminution progressive de la vision.
- 4Dispositif destiné à régulariser le fonctionnement de machine à vapeur à simple effet, à mouvement intermittent, en particulier celle qui mettent en mouvement des masses importantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actaracte,caatracte,cataarcte,cataraccte,cataracet,cataractte,cataratce,catarcate,catarracte,catraacte,cattaracte,ccataracte,ctaaracte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cataracte
Misspelling Variants of "cataracte"
Frequency rank: #39,694 in French
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