catel
The verdict
“catel” is uncommon French (frequency #88,442 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,442
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bien, patrimoine, possession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catel · catel · French
catel · rank #88,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,442
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catalytiques
Nearest frequency peer: catalytiques (-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 « catel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carette
carette
11,564 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catel is uncommon French at frequency #88,442 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bien, patrimoine, possession.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for catel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is catel, spelled C-A-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bien, patrimoine, possession.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Droit de meilleur catel, droit en vertu duquel les seigneurs, après le décès d'un vassal, prenaient à leur choix le meilleur des meubles du défunt
Plaids de cattel, à Jersey, audiences tenues par la cour royale pour le jugement de certaines affaires mobilières ou criminelles.
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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