catéchisme
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,948
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
catéchisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instruction sur les doctrines de la foi chrétienne, particulièrement destinée aux enfants. Pronounced \ka.te.ʃism\. Often confused with catéchèse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catéchisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.ʃism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for catéchisme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.te.ʃism\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,948 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 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for catéchisme, with forms such as "actéchisme", "catcéhisme", and "catechisme". 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, "catéchèse", 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 catéchisme, spelled C-A-T-É-C-H-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instruction sur les doctrines de la foi chrétienne, particulièrement destinée aux enfants.
- 2Livre qui contient cette instruction.
- 3Titre donné à certains ouvrages de vulgarisation, qui contiennent l’exposition abrégée d’une science, et qui sont rédigés par questions et réponses.
- 4Ensemble de doctrines que l’on assène péremptoirement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actéchisme,catcéhisme,catechisme,cattéchisme,catécchisme,catéchhisme,catéchimse,catéchisem,catéchismme,catéchissme,catéchsime,catécihsme,catéhcisme,caétchisme,ccatéchisme,ctaéchisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "catéchisme"
Frequency rank: #20,948 in French
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