Catherine

\kat.ʁin\

/\kat.ʁin\/ name

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The verdict

“Catherine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,059
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom mixte, le plus souvent féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-catherine · Catherine · French

Catherine · rank #3,059 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,059
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH bouteille

Nearest frequency peer: bouteille (-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 « Catherine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Catherine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Catherine vs Katherine
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Catherine
PropertyValue
HeadwordCatherine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\kat.ʁin\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,059
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Catherine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Catherinese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bouteille » (#3,058), « catégories » (#3,060), « bouger » (#3,057). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Catherine » est au #3,059. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Catherine (IPA \kat.ʁin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,059 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom mixte, le plus souvent féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Catherine, with forms such as "actherine", "cahterine", and "catehrine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Katherine", 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Catherine, spelled C-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom mixte, le plus souvent féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. C’est moi qui conduisais Catherine à la grand-messe et aux vêpres, et, pendant la fête, elle ne quittait pas mon bras et refusait de danser avec les autres garçons du village.
  2. Issu d’une famille de bonne bourgeoisie, Dominique-Catherine de Perignon, après de solides études à Toulouse, entre dans l’armée en 1780, mais voit son avancement bloqué par la réforme du marquis de Ségur.

This word in other languages

Catherine(English)Catalina(Español)Katharina(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • actherine
  • cahterine
  • catehrine
  • catheirne
  • catherien
  • catherinne
  • cathernie
  • catherrine
  • cathherine
  • cathreine
  • cattherine
  • ccatherine
  • ctaherine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Catherine - 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.

actherine2cahterine2catehrine2catheirne2catherien2catherinne1cathernie2catherrine1
Edit distance from "Catherine"

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 "Catherine"?
"Catherine" is spelled C-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kat.ʁin\.
What does "Catherine" mean?
As a proper noun, "Catherine" means: Prénom mixte, le plus souvent féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Catherine"?
"Catherine" is commonly confused with "Katherine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Catherine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Catherine" is \kat.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Catherine" come from?
"Catherine" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouteille#3,058favorable#3,072supprimer#3,044supporter#3,043

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

critères13 variantspositions13 variantsolympique13 variantssignature13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list