cathartique
\ka.taʁ.tik\
The verdict
“cathartique” is uncommon French (frequency #62,128 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,128
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la catharsis, qui produit une action purificatrice, libératrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathartique · cathartique · French
cathartique · rank #62,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,128
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carpette
Nearest frequency peer: carpette (-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 « cathartique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caressent
caressent
37,876 corpus weight
- carnavalesq…
carnavalesque
37,875 corpus weight
- carpette
carpette
37,874 corpus weight
- cathartique
cathartique
37,873 corpus weight
- censitaire
censitaire
37,872 corpus weight
- cervelles
cervelles
37,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cathartique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cathartique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.taʁ.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cathartique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cathartique is uncommon French at frequency #62,128 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.taʁ.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cathartique has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cathartique, spelled C-A-T-H-A-R-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la catharsis, qui produit une action purificatrice, libératrice.
- 2Purgatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cathartique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La méthode cathartique est une méthode psychothérapique reposant sur la recherche de la catharsis chez le patient, pratiquée par Freud avant la mise au point de la méthode psychanalytique proprement dite.
Est-il permis d’avoir une vie privée compliquée quand la grande Histoire elle-même se complique à son tour et devient folle ? C’était cette rencontre entre l’Histoire et son histoire personnelle, la nôtre, qui mettait ma mère au rouet et dont Monny fut le messager cathartique.
Synonyms
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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