Katima Mulilo
The verdict
“Katima Mulilo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ville de Namibie, à l’est de la bande de Caprivi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katima Mulilo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Katima Mulilo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Katima Mulilo is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ville de Namibie, à l’est de la bande de Caprivi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Katima Mulilo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Katima Mulilo, spelled K-A-T-I-M-A- -M-U-L-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ville de Namibie, à l’est de la bande de Caprivi.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Katima Mulilo”
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- The one correct French spelling is K-A-T-I-M-A- -M-U-L-I-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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