Caterina
\ka.te.ˈri.na\
The verdict
“Caterina” is uncommon French (frequency #59,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,871
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catherine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caterina · Caterina · French
Caterina · rank #59,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,871
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casi
Nearest frequency peer: casi (-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 « Caterina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caricaturis…
caricaturistes
40,134 corpus weight
- cartographi…
cartographiques
40,132 corpus weight
- casi
casi
40,131 corpus weight
- Caterina
Caterina
40,130 corpus weight
- census
census
40,129 corpus weight
- Cernay
Cernay
40,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caterina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caterina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.ˈri.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caterina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caterina is uncommon French at frequency #59,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.te.ˈri.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catherine.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Caterina in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Caterina, spelled C-A-T-E-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Catherine.
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).