Catholic
\ˈkæθ.ə.lɪk\
The verdict
“Catholic” is uncommon French (frequency #60,624 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,624
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catholique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catholic · Catholic · French
Catholic · rank #60,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,624
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castilla
Nearest frequency peer: castilla (-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 « Catholic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carioca
Carioca
39,380 corpus weight
- carrick
carrick
39,379 corpus weight
- castilla
castilla
39,378 corpus weight
- Catholic
Catholic
39,377 corpus weight
- caucasiens
caucasiens
39,375 corpus weight
- Caylus
Caylus
39,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Catholic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catholic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkæθ.ə.lɪk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Catholic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Catholic is uncommon French at frequency #60,624 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkæθ.ə.lɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catholique.".
Catholic doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Catholic, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Catholique.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).