catoire
\katwɛʁ\
The verdict
“catoire” is uncommon French (frequency #74,644 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,644
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruche d’abeille en paille tressée. La récolte du miel se faisait en retirant les galettes et en les pressant. Les abeilles (ouvrières) doivent alors tout reconstruire après chaque récolte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catoire · catoire · French
catoire · rank #74,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,644
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cathodiques
Nearest frequency peer: cathodiques (-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 « catoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cassaient
cassaient
25,362 corpus weight
- castillans
castillans
25,361 corpus weight
- Cathay
Cathay
25,359 corpus weight
- cathodiques
cathodiques
25,358 corpus weight
- catoire
catoire
25,357 corpus weight
- CBN
CBN
25,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \katwɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catoire is uncommon French at frequency #74,644 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \katwɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for catoire in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 catoire, spelled C-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ruche d’abeille en paille tressée. La récolte du miel se faisait en retirant les galettes et en les pressant. Les abeilles (ouvrières) doivent alors tout reconstruire après chaque récolte.
- 2Corbeille plate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La catoire (ou banneton) est utilisée lors de l’apprêt, c’est-à-dire lors de la deuxième levée.
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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