catastrophique
\ka.tas.tʁɔ.fik\
The verdict
“catastrophique” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,792
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des effets comparables à ceux d’une catastrophe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catastrophique · catastrophique · French
catastrophique · rank #9,792 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,792
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bulles
Nearest frequency peer: bulles (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « catastrophique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- berceau
berceau
90,212 corpus weight
- Besançon
Besançon
90,211 corpus weight
- bulles
bulles
90,210 corpus weight
- catastrophi…
catastrophique
90,209 corpus weight
- cavaliers
cavaliers
90,208 corpus weight
- centenaire
centenaire
90,207 corpus weight
What this shows « catastrophique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catastrophique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tas.tʁɔ.fik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #9,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « catastrophique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around catastrophique (IPA \ka.tas.tʁɔ.fik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,792 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for catastrophique, with forms such as "actastrophique", "caatstrophique", and "catasrtophique". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "catastrophiques", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is catastrophique, spelled C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a des effets comparables à ceux d’une catastrophe.
- 2Très mauvais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catastrophique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du haut en bas de l'échelle, tous les membres d'une armée vraiment solide ont leur pensée tendue vers cette issue catastrophique des conflits internationaux.
Si par malheur les crues de l’Ourthe coïncidaient avec celles de la Meuse, des inondations catastrophiques affectaient toute la vallée en aval de Liège.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actastrophique
- caatstrophique
- catasrtophique
- catasstrophique
- catastorphique
- catastrohpique
- catastrophhique
- catastrophiqeu
- catastrophiqque
- catastrophiuqe
- catastrophqiue
- catastropihque
- catastropphique
- catastrpohique
- catastrrophique
- catasttrophique
- catatsrophique
- catsatrophique
- cattastrophique
- ccatastrophique
- ctaastrophique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catastrophique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).