castell
[kəsˈteʎ]
The verdict
“castell” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,508
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Burg
Corpus desk
Index DE-castell · castell · German
castell · rank #44,508 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,508
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH capo
Nearest frequency peer: capo (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „castell“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bürgerin
Bürgerin
55,497 corpus weight
- calls
calls
55,495 corpus weight
- capo
capo
55,494 corpus weight
- castell
castell
55,493 corpus weight
- Cherokee
Cherokee
55,492 corpus weight
- Chiles
Chiles
55,491 corpus weight
What this shows „castell“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | castell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kəsˈteʎ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „castell“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around castell (IPA [kəsˈteʎ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,508 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Burg".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for castell, with forms such as "acstell", "casetll", and "casstell". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "castle", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is castell, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1die Burg
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstell
- casetll
- casstell
- castlel
- casttell
- catsell
- ccastell
- csatell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castell - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "castell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).