cath
\kaːθ\
The verdict
“cath” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,167
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chat (animal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cath · cath · French
cath · rank #40,167 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,167
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Castellane
Nearest frequency peer: Castellane (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cath »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- camomille
camomille
59,837 corpus weight
- carabiniers
carabiniers
59,836 corpus weight
- Castellane
Castellane
59,835 corpus weight
- cath
cath
59,834 corpus weight
- cervicale
cervicale
59,833 corpus weight
- Chagall
Chagall
59,832 corpus weight
What this shows « cath » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cath |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaːθ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cath »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cath (IPA \kaːθ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chat (animal).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cath, with forms such as "acth", "cathh", and "catth". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CH", "Ct", "cet", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 cath, spelled C-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1Chat (animal).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acth
- cathh
- catth
- ccath
- ctah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cath - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).