caténaires
\ka.te.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“caténaires” is uncommon French (frequency #73,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caténaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catenaires · caténaires · French
caténaires · rank #73,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,809
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Catulle
Nearest frequency peer: Catulle (-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 « caténaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carvin
Carvin
26,195 corpus weight
- Castanet
Castanet
26,194 corpus weight
- Catulle
Catulle
26,193 corpus weight
- caténaires
caténaires
26,192 corpus weight
- Cauterets
Cauterets
26,191 corpus weight
- Cayrol
Cayrol
26,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caténaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caténaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caténaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caténaires is uncommon French at frequency #73,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.te.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caténaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caténaires, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caténaires, spelled C-A-T-É-N-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caténaire.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "caténaires"?
What does "caténaires" mean?
How do you pronounce "caténaires"?
What language does "caténaires" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caténaires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).