Casella
"casella" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Casella” is uncommon English (frequency #76,625 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,625
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Italian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-casella · Casella · English
Casella · rank #76,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cerebrum
Nearest frequency peer: cerebrum (+2 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 “Casella”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carlene
Carlene
23,381 corpus weight
- Carpentier
Carpentier
23,380 corpus weight
- Casella
Casella
23,376 corpus weight
- cerebrum
cerebrum
23,374 corpus weight
- certifiable
certifiable
23,373 corpus weight
- Chawla
Chawla
23,369 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Casella” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Casella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Casella” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Casella is uncommon English at frequency #76,625 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Italian.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Casella in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Casella. The correct English form is Casella, spelled C-A-S-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Italian.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Casella.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).