Katarina

name

The verdict

“Katarina” is uncommon French (frequency #50,317 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,317
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-katarina · Katarina · French

Katarina · rank #50,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,317
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kampala

Nearest frequency peer: Kampala (-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 « Katarina »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Katarina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Katarina
PropertyValue
HeadwordKatarina
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#50,317
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Katarina » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Katarinatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Kampala » (#50,316), « Kaufmann » (#50,318), « Kamouraska » (#50,315). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Katarina » est au #50,317. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Katarina is uncommon French at frequency #50,317 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Katarina in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Katarina, spelled K-A-T-A-R-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Katarina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avant la reprise des cours, Katarina profite d’une dernière cigarette, accompagnée de Rolf avant la reprise des cours.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Katarina"?
"Katarina" is spelled K-A-T-A-R-I-N-A.
What does "Katarina" mean?
As a proper noun, "Katarina" means: Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.
What language does "Katarina" come from?
"Katarina" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Katarina", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list