Catulle
\ka.tyl\
The verdict
“Catulle” is uncommon French (frequency #73,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,808
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poète romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catulle · Catulle · French
Catulle · rank #73,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,808
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Castanet
Nearest frequency peer: Castanet (-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 « Catulle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cartilages
cartilages
26,196 corpus weight
- Carvin
Carvin
26,195 corpus weight
- Castanet
Castanet
26,194 corpus weight
- Catulle
Catulle
26,193 corpus weight
- caténaires
caténaires
26,192 corpus weight
- Cauterets
Cauterets
26,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Catulle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.tyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Catulle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Catulle is uncommon French at frequency #73,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poète romain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Catulle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Catulle, spelled C-A-T-U-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Poète romain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Catulle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était là, debout, contre les éditions savantes de Catulle et de Pétrone, le mannequin d’osier, image conjugale.
Écoutez Virgile hausser l’églogue à la hauteur du printemps ; Catulle mêler l’avril aux tentations plus fortes que les ambitions ; Longus adorer Chloé nue ; Dante épancher son inquiétude philosophique et lyrique sur le mystère de la femme ; Pétrarque soupirer ses aveux dans un exil que sa détresse enchante ; et, se rapprochant toujours plus de nous, Ronsa…
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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