cato
\ka.to\
The verdict
“cato” is uncommon French (frequency #67,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,363
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante, rare, de cateau, catau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cato · cato · French
cato · rank #67,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,363
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassien
Nearest frequency peer: Cassien (-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 « cato »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- capturant
capturant
32,640 corpus weight
- Cassien
Cassien
32,639 corpus weight
- cato
cato
32,638 corpus weight
- cauchemard
cauchemard
32,637 corpus weight
- Cazaux
Cazaux
32,636 corpus weight
- cera
cera
32,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cato » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cato |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cato » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cato is uncommon French at frequency #67,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante, rare, de cateau, catau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cato, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cato, spelled C-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Variante, rare, de cateau, catau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cato appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieu de Dieu ! il pleuvait drôlement sur sa mercerie, à cette belle blonde, cette cato qui tortillait tant son derrière, autrefois, dans sa belle boutique bleue.
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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