category
\ˈkæt.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi\
The verdict
“category” is uncommon French (frequency #75,484 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,484
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-category · category · French
category · rank #75,484 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,484
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cateau
Nearest frequency peer: cateau (-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 « category »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casanier
casanier
24,521 corpus weight
- casserait
casserait
24,520 corpus weight
- cateau
cateau
24,518 corpus weight
- category
category
24,517 corpus weight
- CDL
CDL
24,516 corpus weight
- ceri
ceri
24,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « category » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | category |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkæt.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « category » en français
Rare enough to double-check
category is uncommon French at frequency #75,484 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkæt.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catégorie.".
category has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is category, spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Catégorie.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).