cathares
\ka.taʁ\
The verdict
“cathares” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,925
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cathare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathares · cathares · French
cathares · rank #44,925 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,925
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cameras
Nearest frequency peer: cameras (-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 « cathares »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabrera
cabrera
55,081 corpus weight
- caillots
caillots
55,080 corpus weight
- cameras
cameras
55,077 corpus weight
- cathares
cathares
55,076 corpus weight
- cautions
cautions
55,075 corpus weight
- chapuis
chapuis
55,074 corpus weight
What this shows « cathares » 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 | cathares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cathares »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cathares (IPA \ka.taʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,925 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cathare.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cathares, with forms such as "acthares", "cahtares", and "catahres". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Qatar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cathares, spelled C-A-T-H-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cathare.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acthares
- cahtares
- catahres
- cathaers
- catharess
- catharres
- catharse
- cathhares
- cathraes
- catthares
- ccathares
- ctahares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cathares - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cathares", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).