catholicos
\ka.tɔ.li.kɔs\
The verdict
“catholicos” is uncommon French (frequency #98,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,859
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre équivalent à celui de patriarche porté par des dignitaires de plusieurs Églises chrétiennes orthodoxes orientales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catholicos · catholicos · French
catholicos · rank #98,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,859
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnavalesques
Nearest frequency peer: carnavalesques (-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 « catholicos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caradec
Caradec
1,146 corpus weight
- caramélisés
caramélisés
1,145 corpus weight
- cardinalice
cardinalice
1,144 corpus weight
- carnavalesq…
carnavalesques
1,143 corpus weight
- catholicos
catholicos
1,142 corpus weight
- cautériser
cautériser
1,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catholicos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catholicos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tɔ.li.kɔs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catholicos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catholicos is uncommon French at frequency #98,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tɔ.li.kɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre équivalent à celui de patriarche porté par des dignitaires de plusieurs Églises chrétiennes orthodoxes orientales.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for catholicos, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is catholicos, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Titre équivalent à celui de patriarche porté par des dignitaires de plusieurs Églises chrétiennes orthodoxes orientales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catholicos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette structure hiérarchique était encore intacte lorsque les évêques de ces diocèses rencontrèrent le catholicos Georges Iᵉʳ en 676.
This word in other languages
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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