Katharina

name

The verdict

“Katharina” is uncommon French (frequency #80,338 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,338
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-katharina · Katharina · French

Katharina · rank #80,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,338
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH Karénine

Nearest frequency peer: Karénine (-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 « Katharina »

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 « Katharina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Katharina
PropertyValue
HeadwordKatharina
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#80,338
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Katharina » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Katharinatombe 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: « Karénine » (#80,337), « Katowice » (#80,339), « Kadyrov » (#80,336). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Katharina » est au #80,338. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Katharina is uncommon French at frequency #80,338 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 Katharina in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Katharina, spelled K-A-T-H-A-R-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Raymond répond, en présence de Katharina sa co-animatrice : « à votre avis, vous diriez depuis combien de temps ? ».

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 "Katharina"?
"Katharina" is spelled K-A-T-H-A-R-I-N-A.
What does "Katharina" mean?
As a proper noun, "Katharina" means: Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.
What language does "Katharina" come from?
"Katharina" 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 "Katharina", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list