Cathy

\ka.ti\

/\ka.ti\/ name

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The verdict

“Cathy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,428
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cathy · Cathy · French

Cathy · rank #18,428 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,428
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caresses

Nearest frequency peer: caresses (-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 « Cathy »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Cathy » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Cathy vs city
40% similar
Cathy vs cats
40% similar
Cathy vs catin
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Cathy
PropertyValue
HeadwordCathy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ka.ti\
Letters5
Frequency rank#18,428
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cathy »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Cathyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « caresses » (#18,427), « causalité » (#18,429), « care » (#18,426). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Cathy » est au #18,428. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Cathy (IPA \ka.ti\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,428 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cathy, with forms such as "acthy", "cahty", and "cathhy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "city", "cats", "catin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Cathy, spelled C-A-T-H-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Cathy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « On se sait pas où l’on va. En aura-t-on pour cet hiver ? Je ne sais pas », reconnaît Cathy Donval.
  2. Directrice du groupe Dialogues, Cathy Jolivet nous raconte cette ville qu’elle a quittée il y a quinze ans pour mieux la retrouver.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acthy
  • cahty
  • cathhy
  • cathyy
  • catthy
  • catyh
  • ccathy
  • ctahy

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cathy - 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.

acthy2cahty2cathhy1cathyy1catthy1catyh2ccathy1ctahy2
Edit distance from "Cathy"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cathy"?
"Cathy" is spelled C-A-T-H-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ti\.
What does "Cathy" mean?
As a proper noun, "Cathy" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Cathy"?
"Cathy" is commonly confused with "city", "cats", "catin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Cathy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Cathy" is \ka.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Cathy" come from?
"Cathy" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cathy", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chiot#18,433Comic#18,438brefs#18,417bosch#18,415

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

bourrée8 variantsbitume8 variantsbefore8 variantscoudre8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list