Katherine
\kat.ʁin\
The verdict
“Katherine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,716
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-katherine · Katherine · French
Katherine · rank #14,716 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH ke
Nearest frequency peer: ke (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Katherine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ji
ji
85,288 corpus weight
- joey
joey
85,287 corpus weight
- Katherine
Katherine
85,285 corpus weight
- ke
ke
85,284 corpus weight
- Kenny
Kenny
85,283 corpus weight
- latéraux
latéraux
85,282 corpus weight
What this shows « Katherine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katherine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kat.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Katherine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Katherine (IPA \kat.ʁin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,716 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Katherine, with forms such as "aktherine", "kahterine", and "katehrine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Catherine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Katherine, spelled K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Katherine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La BBC a, de son côté, invité la mezzo-soprano écossaise Katherine Jenkins à enregistrer l’hymne avec les bonnes paroles, mais cette version n’est pas commercialisée.
Dans une belle préface, à la fois sensible et clairvoyante, M. Louis Gillet nos raconte la vie de Katherine Mansfield.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aktherine
- kahterine
- katehrine
- katheirne
- katherien
- katherinne
- kathernie
- katherrine
- kathherine
- kathreine
- kattherine
- kkatherine
- ktaherine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Katherine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Katherine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).