casco
"casco" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“casco” is uncommon English (frequency #72,171 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,171
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore
Corpus desk
Index EN-casco · casco · English
casco · rank #72,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,171
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cartoony
Nearest frequency peer: cartoony (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “casco”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- capsid
capsid
27,835 corpus weight
- carmaker
carmaker
27,833 corpus weight
- cartoony
cartoony
27,831 corpus weight
- casco
casco
27,830 corpus weight
- cassock
cassock
27,829 corpus weight
- centring
centring
27,826 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “casco” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “casco” in English
Rare enough to double-check
casco is uncommon English at frequency #72,171 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore".
No misspelling variants are generated for casco in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque. The correct English form is casco, spelled C-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish casco. Doublet of cask and casque.
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.
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