catéchistes
\ka.te.ʃist\
The verdict
“catéchistes” is uncommon French (frequency #88,443 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,443
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de catéchiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catechistes · catéchistes · French
catéchistes · rank #88,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,443
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catel
Nearest frequency peer: catel (-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 « catéchistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- catalytiques
catalytiques
11,560 corpus weight
- catel
catel
11,559 corpus weight
- catéchistes
catéchistes
11,558 corpus weight
- causeront
causeront
11,557 corpus weight
- ceinturée
ceinturée
11,555 corpus weight
- cernées
cernées
11,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catéchistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catéchistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.ʃist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catéchistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catéchistes is uncommon French at frequency #88,443 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.te.ʃist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de catéchiste.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for catéchistes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is catéchistes, spelled C-A-T-É-C-H-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de catéchiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catéchistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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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