catéchumènes
\ka.te.ky.mɛn\
The verdict
“catéchumènes” is uncommon French (frequency #82,775 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,775
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de catéchumène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catechumenes · catéchumènes · French
catéchumènes · rank #82,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,775
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cataclysmique
Nearest frequency peer: cataclysmique (-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 « catéchumènes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casoni
casoni
17,229 corpus weight
- cataclysmiq…
cataclysmique
17,227 corpus weight
- catéchumènes
catéchumènes
17,226 corpus weight
- ceder
ceder
17,225 corpus weight
- ceinte
ceinte
17,224 corpus weight
- celu
celu
17,223 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catéchumènes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catéchumènes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.ky.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catéchumènes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catéchumènes is uncommon French at frequency #82,775 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.te.ky.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de catéchumène.".
catéchumènes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is catéchumènes, spelled C-A-T-É-C-H-U-M-È-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de catéchumène.
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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