Katerine
The verdict
“Katerine” is uncommon French (frequency #54,058 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,058
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-katerine · Katerine · French
Katerine · rank #54,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,058
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kari
Nearest frequency peer: kari (-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 « Katerine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- justifiable
justifiable
45,946 corpus weight
- kami
kami
45,945 corpus weight
- kari
kari
45,944 corpus weight
- Katerine
Katerine
45,943 corpus weight
- kawaii
kawaii
45,942 corpus weight
- kibboutz
kibboutz
45,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Katerine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katerine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Katerine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Katerine is uncommon French at frequency #54,058 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Katerine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Katerine, spelled K-A-T-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Katerine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette année, on a pu croiser Philippe Katerine et Julie Depardieu sur la très fréquentée digue dinardaise.
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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