campanella
"campanella" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“campanella” is uncommon English (frequency #80,290 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,290
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-campanella · campanella · English
campanella · rank #80,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,290
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH Camillus
Nearest frequency peer: Camillus (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “campanella”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- caisson
caisson
19,716 corpus weight
- callously
callously
19,714 corpus weight
- camas
camas
19,713 corpus weight
- Camillus
Camillus
19,712 corpus weight
- campanella
campanella
19,711 corpus weight
- Candelaria
Candelaria
19,710 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “campanella” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campanella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “campanella” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
campanella is uncommon English at frequency #80,290 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for campanella, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin campānella, from campāna (“steeple bell”) + -ella (diminutive suffix). The correct English form is campanella, spelled C-A-M-P-A-N-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin campānella, from campāna (“steeple bell”) + -ella (diminutive suffix).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.