catcher
\kat.ʃe\
The verdict
“catcher” is uncommon French (frequency #62,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,843
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratiquer le catch.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catcher · catcher · French
catcher · rank #62,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,843
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnavalet
Nearest frequency peer: carnavalet (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « catcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantonaux
cantonaux
37,162 corpus weight
- capi
capi
37,161 corpus weight
- carnavalet
carnavalet
37,160 corpus weight
- catcher
catcher
37,158 corpus weight
- centralisme
centralisme
37,155 corpus weight
- Chaco
Chaco
37,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kat.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catcher is uncommon French at frequency #62,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kat.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for catcher in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is catcher, spelled C-A-T-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pratiquer le catch.
- 2Attraper.
- 3Comprendre, percuter, piger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux adversaires sont maintenant prêt à catcher pour le plus grand bonheur des spectateurs.
Synonyms
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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