catfish
\kæt.fɪʃ\
The verdict
“catfish” is uncommon French (frequency #84,618 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,618
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson-chat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catfish · catfish · French
catfish · rank #84,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,618
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catamarans
Nearest frequency peer: catamarans (-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 « catfish »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casemate
casemate
15,385 corpus weight
- catamarans
catamarans
15,384 corpus weight
- catfish
catfish
15,383 corpus weight
- Cattenom
Cattenom
15,382 corpus weight
- Cavill
Cavill
15,381 corpus weight
- celluloïd
celluloïd
15,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catfish » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catfish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kæt.fɪʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catfish » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catfish is uncommon French at frequency #84,618 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kæt.fɪʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson-chat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for catfish in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is catfish, spelled C-A-T-F-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Poisson-chat.
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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