Cattenom
\kat.nɔm\
The verdict
“Cattenom” is uncommon French (frequency #84,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,619
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cattenom · Cattenom · French
Cattenom · rank #84,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catfish
Nearest frequency peer: catfish (-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 « Cattenom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casemate
casemate
15,385 corpus weight
- catamarans
catamarans
15,384 corpus weight
- catfish
catfish
15,383 corpus weight
- Cattenom
Cattenom
15,382 corpus weight
- Cavill
Cavill
15,381 corpus weight
- celluloïd
celluloïd
15,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cattenom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cattenom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kat.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cattenom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cattenom is uncommon French at frequency #84,619 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kat.nɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cattenom, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Cattenom, spelled C-A-T-T-E-N-O-M.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Moselle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cattenom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le communicant en chef d’EDF est formel : les militants de Greenpeace qui se sont introduits, jeudi 12 octobre, à l’intérieur de la centrale nucléaire de Cattenom sont des « irresponsables ».
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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