Cauterets
\ko.tœ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“Cauterets” is uncommon French (frequency #73,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,810
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cauterets · Cauterets · French
Cauterets · rank #73,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,810
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caténaires
Nearest frequency peer: caténaires (-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 « Cauterets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Castanet
Castanet
26,194 corpus weight
- Catulle
Catulle
26,193 corpus weight
- caténaires
caténaires
26,192 corpus weight
- Cauterets
Cauterets
26,191 corpus weight
- Cayrol
Cayrol
26,190 corpus weight
- caïques
caïques
26,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cauterets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cauterets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ko.tœ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cauterets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cauterets is uncommon French at frequency #73,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ko.tœ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Pyrénées.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cauterets, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cauterets, spelled C-A-U-T-E-R-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cauterets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma tante Marguerite et mon oncle Gaston qui faisaient avec leurs enfants une saison à Cauterets nous invitèrent, ma sœur et moi, à les y rejoindre.
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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