catholique
\ka.tɔ.lik\
The verdict
“catholique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,507. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,507
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la religion chrétienne et l’Église dirigée par le pape de Rome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catholique · catholique · French
catholique · rank #2,507 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,507
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH champions
Nearest frequency peer: champions (+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 « catholique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avantages
avantages
97,497 corpus weight
- bienvenue
bienvenue
97,496 corpus weight
- catholique
catholique
97,494 corpus weight
- champions
champions
97,493 corpus weight
- chaussures
chaussures
97,492 corpus weight
- chrétiens
chrétiens
97,491 corpus weight
What this shows « catholique » 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 | catholique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.tɔ.lik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « catholique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around catholique (IPA \ka.tɔ.lik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,507 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 catholique, with forms such as "actholique", "cahtolique", and "cathholique". 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, "catholiques", "cathodique", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 catholique, spelled C-A-T-H-O-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la religion chrétienne et l’Église dirigée par le pape de Rome.
- 2Conforme à la morale, à ce qui devrait être, bien régulier, recommandable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catholique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se meut à l’aise dans le bel univers sphérique de son catéchisme, où la Sainte Trinité garantit tout : l’incorruptibilité des essences, la bonté de la création, le sens providentiel de l’histoire, l’infaillibilité du Pape, le dogmatisme ingénu des vicaires de village et des poètes catholiques.
Les seigneurs catholiques n’osaient plus sortir de leurs châteaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actholique
- cahtolique
- cathholique
- cathloique
- cathoilque
- catholiqeu
- catholiqque
- catholiuqe
- cathollique
- catholqiue
- catohlique
- cattholique
- ccatholique
- ctaholique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catholique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).