cattleya
French, noun/kat.lɛ.ja/
cattleya is spelled C-A-T-T-L-E-Y-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cattleya is a French feminine noun meaning “cattleya” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Orchidée du genre Cattleya, originaire des forêts tropicales d’Amérique centrale et du Sud qui comprend plus…”.
What does cattleya mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecattleya
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Orchidée du genre Cattleya, originaire des forêts tropicales d’Amérique centrale et du Sud qui comprend plus de 150 espèces.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cattleya
- cattleyas plural
- catleya
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cattleya?
- /kat.lɛ.ja/
- /kat.le.ja/
- \ka.tlɛ.ja\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cattleya
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cattleya in French?
cattleya appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).