fièvre catarrhale
\fjɛvʁ ka.ta.ʁal\
The verdict
“fièvre catarrhale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une maladie virale non contagieuse, transmise par des moucherons piqueurs du genre Culicoides (famille des Ceratopogonidae), touchant les ruminants sauvages ou d'élevages, mais principalement les m...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fièvre catarrhale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɛvʁ ka.ta.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fièvre catarrhale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fièvre catarrhale is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fjɛvʁ ka.ta.ʁal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Une maladie virale non contagieuse, transmise par des moucherons piqueurs du genre Culicoides (famille des Ceratopogonidae), touchant les ruminants sauvages ou d'élevages, mais principalement les m...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fièvre catarrhale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fièvre catarrhale, spelled F-I-È-V-R-E- -C-A-T-A-R-R-H-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une maladie virale non contagieuse, transmise par des moucherons piqueurs du genre Culicoides (famille des Ceratopogonidae), touchant les ruminants sauvages ou d'élevages, mais principalement les moutons, moins souvent les chèvres, bovidés, les cervidés, dromadaires et antilopes.
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- The one correct French spelling is F-I-È-V-R-E- -C-A-T-A-R-R-H-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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