catholicité
\ka.tɔ.li.si.te\
The verdict
“catholicité” is uncommon French (frequency #94,597 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,597
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - C'est le fait non seulement d'être universelle (œcuménique) mais d'exister en plénitude (kat'olon) jusque dans les plus petites de ses parties.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catholicite · catholicité · French
catholicité · rank #94,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,597
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH catalyst
Nearest frequency peer: catalyst (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “catholicité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- carriéristes
carriéristes
5,408 corpus weight
- Castafiore
Castafiore
5,407 corpus weight
- catalyst
catalyst
5,405 corpus weight
- catholicité
catholicité
5,404 corpus weight
- Catilina
Catilina
5,403 corpus weight
- cattolica
cattolica
5,402 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “catholicité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catholicité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɔ.li.si.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “catholicité” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
catholicité is uncommon French at frequency #94,597 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tɔ.li.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for catholicité, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is catholicité, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1C'est le fait non seulement d'être universelle (œcuménique) mais d'exister en plénitude (kat'olon) jusque dans les plus petites de ses parties.
- 2Caractère de ce qui est vrai, véritable, orthodoxe, traditionnel, conforme à la foi des apôtres.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "catholicité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.