Katharina
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
- Justus
Justus
19,666 corpus weight
- Kadyrov
Kadyrov
19,665 corpus weight
- Karénine
Karénine
19,664 corpus weight
- Katharina
Katharina
19,663 corpus weight
- Katowice
Katowice
19,662 corpus weight
- Keene
Keene
19,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Katharina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katharina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Katharina » en français
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
- 1Prénom féminin, correspondant à Catherine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Katharina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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