cathodique
\ka.tɔ.dik\
The verdict
“cathodique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,776
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à une réduction électrochimique ; qui se produit à la cathode.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathodique · cathodique · French
cathodique · rank #47,776 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castillan
Nearest frequency peer: castillan (-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 « cathodique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capitulaire
capitulaire
52,229 corpus weight
- castillan
castillan
52,226 corpus weight
- cathodique
cathodique
52,225 corpus weight
- CCAS
CCAS
52,224 corpus weight
- celi
celi
52,223 corpus weight
- centers
centers
52,222 corpus weight
What this shows « cathodique » 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 | cathodique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tɔ.dik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cathodique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cathodique (IPA \ka.tɔ.dik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,776 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cathodique, with forms such as "acthodique", "cahtodique", and "cathdoique". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "catholique", "catholiques", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cathodique, spelled C-A-T-H-O-D-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à une réduction électrochimique ; qui se produit à la cathode.
- 2Qui a rapport à la télévision.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cathodique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En connectant électriquement la structure à protéger à des masses d’un métal moins noble (aluminium, zinc ou magnésium, dans le cas de la protection de l'acier) celles-ci vont se corroder préférentiellement et fournir un courant cathodique à la structure.
Ce n’est en effet que dans les années 1950 que commencèrent à être définies les conditions expérimentales de la pulvérisation cathodique.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acthodique
- cahtodique
- cathdoique
- cathhodique
- cathoddique
- cathodiqeu
- cathodiqque
- cathodiuqe
- cathodqiue
- cathoidque
- catohdique
- catthodique
- ccathodique
- ctahodique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cathodique - 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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