catéchiste
\ka.te.ʃist\
The verdict
“catéchiste” is uncommon French (frequency #87,431 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,431
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui enseigne le catéchisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catechiste · catéchiste · French
catéchiste · rank #87,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,431
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartésiennes
Nearest frequency peer: cartésiennes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « catéchiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caputo
Caputo
12,576 corpus weight
- carpeaux
carpeaux
12,574 corpus weight
- cartésiennes
cartésiennes
12,571 corpus weight
- catéchiste
catéchiste
12,570 corpus weight
- Caudry
Caudry
12,569 corpus weight
- Cazin
Cazin
12,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catéchiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catéchiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.ʃist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catéchiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catéchiste is uncommon French at frequency #87,431 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.te.ʃist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for catéchiste in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is catéchiste, spelled C-A-T-É-C-H-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui enseigne le catéchisme.
- 2Celui qui enseigne une religion, une doctrine, à des néophytes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catéchiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est le catéchiste de la paroisse.
Quelques chefs catholiques aidaient activement les catéchistes dans leur territoire, leur donnant logement et champs à cultiver, voire même en construisant pour eux une chapelle.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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