cathare
\ka.taʁ\
The verdict
“cathare” is uncommon French (frequency #52,556 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,556
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au catharisme, un mouvement religieux dualiste chrétien médiéval inventé par des historiens du XIXe et du XXe siècles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathare · cathare · French
cathare · rank #52,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,556
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catharsis
Nearest frequency peer: catharsis (+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 « cathare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carbonifère
carbonifère
47,450 corpus weight
- Carmelo
Carmelo
47,449 corpus weight
- cartonner
cartonner
47,448 corpus weight
- Caruso
Caruso
47,447 corpus weight
- cathare
cathare
47,445 corpus weight
- catharsis
catharsis
47,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cathare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cathare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cathare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cathare is uncommon French at frequency #52,556 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cathare in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cathare, spelled C-A-T-H-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au catharisme, un mouvement religieux dualiste chrétien médiéval inventé par des historiens du XIXe et du XXe siècles.
- 2Relatif à la fausse croyance, hérétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cathare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est en Occitanie que le mouvement cathare connut son plein développement. Cela peut s'expliquer par la déliquescence de l’Église catholique, par une volonté d’indépendance par rapport au pouvoir capétien et aux gens de France qui parlaient la langue d’oïl alors que les gens d’Occitanie employaient la langue d’oc.
Je devins cathare, je confondis la littérature avec la prière, j’en fis un sacrifice humain.
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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