catharisme
\ka.ta.ʁism\
The verdict
“catharisme” is uncommon French (frequency #93,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,582
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine religieuse chrétienne hérétique qui serait apparu aux Xᵉ et XIᵉ siècles en Occitanie et dont la réalité historique est douteuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catharisme · catharisme · French
catharisme · rank #93,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,582
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castra
Nearest frequency peer: castra (-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 « catharisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castellum
castellum
6,421 corpus weight
- castra
castra
6,420 corpus weight
- catharisme
catharisme
6,419 corpus weight
- Cathie
Cathie
6,418 corpus weight
- caté
caté
6,417 corpus weight
- cauchois
cauchois
6,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catharisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catharisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ta.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catharisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catharisme is uncommon French at frequency #93,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ta.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doctrine religieuse chrétienne hérétique qui serait apparu aux Xᵉ et XIᵉ siècles en Occitanie et dont la réalité historique est douteuse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for catharisme, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is catharisme, spelled C-A-T-H-A-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine religieuse chrétienne hérétique qui serait apparu aux Xᵉ et XIᵉ siècles en Occitanie et dont la réalité historique est douteuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catharisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vingt ans durant, il a eu à faire face à l'une des plus fortes tentatives de scission que le christianisme ait connu depuis l’Arianisme et avant le Protestantisme : il a vu se dresser, devant lui, le Catharisme, ou mouvement des Albigeois, et l’hérésie vaudoise.
[…] ; sous la pression quasi-collective des villageois, Prades Tavernier doit violer la règle formelle de son catharisme ; il est contraint de donner le consolamentum à des gens qui n'ont plus leur connaissance ; ou même, ô scandale pour une âme albigeoise, à des bébés !…
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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