catering
The verdict
“catering” is uncommon French (frequency #77,335 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,335
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ravitaillement ; restauration collective.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catering · catering · French
catering · rank #77,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,335
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cavistes
Nearest frequency peer: cavistes (+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 « catering »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castella
castella
22,669 corpus weight
- castillane
castillane
22,668 corpus weight
- catering
catering
22,666 corpus weight
- cavistes
cavistes
22,665 corpus weight
- centrifuges
centrifuges
22,664 corpus weight
- chamaillent
chamaillent
22,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catering » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catering |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catering » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catering is uncommon French at frequency #77,335 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for catering in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is catering, spelled C-A-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ravitaillement ; restauration collective.
- 2Cantine d'avion ou de spectacle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catering en anglais, traduisez "restauration" en français. C'est amusant cette manie d’angliciser tous les mots.
J'ai toujours eu trois ou quatre kilos en trop lorsque j'étais sur la route, car c'est vrai que le catering de Notre-Dame de Paris était des plus copieux et que je mangeais facilement quatre ou cinq fois dans la journée.
This word in other languages
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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