Cathelineau

\ka.tə.li.no\

/\ka.tə.li.no\/ name

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The verdict

“Cathelineau” is uncommon French (frequency #90,519 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,519
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, représentée notamment par Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), chef de l'Armée catholique et royale pendant la guerre de Vendée..

Corpus desk

Index FR-cathelineau · Cathelineau · French

Cathelineau · rank #90,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,519
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cartilagineux

Nearest frequency peer: cartilagineux (-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 « Cathelineau »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cathelineau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Cathelineau
PropertyValue
HeadwordCathelineau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ka.tə.li.no\
Letters11
Frequency rank#90,519
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Cathelineau » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Cathelineautombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « cartilagineux » (#90,518), « catégorisés » (#90,520), « caustiques » (#90,521). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Cathelineau » est au #90,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Cathelineau is uncommon French at frequency #90,519 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.tə.li.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, représentée notamment par Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), chef de l'Armée catholique et royale pendant la guerre de Vendée..".

Cathelineau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cathelineau, spelled C-A-T-H-E-L-I-N-E-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille, représentée notamment par Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), chef de l'Armée catholique et royale pendant la guerre de Vendée..

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Cathelineau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si toutes les figures vendéennes n'eurent point la sublimité de ce grand plébéien que fut Cathelineau, que ses compatriotes nommaient le « Saint de l'Anjou » …
  2. Passage de M. Cathelineau à Châteauroux à la tête d’un beau corps de francs-tireurs qui disent leurs prières devant les populations, bien qu’ils ne soient ni Vendéens ni Bretons, et qu’ils ne se soient pas encore battus.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cathelineau"?
"Cathelineau" is spelled C-A-T-H-E-L-I-N-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.tə.li.no\.
What does "Cathelineau" mean?
As a proper noun, "Cathelineau" means: Nom de famille, représentée notamment par Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), chef de l'Armée catholique et royale pendant la guerre de Vendée..
How do you pronounce "Cathelineau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Cathelineau" is \ka.tə.li.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Cathelineau" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cathelineau", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

catégorisés#90,520capitalisés#90,509chauffantes#90,536brouillonne#90,493

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list