cashel
/ˈkæʃəl/
"cashel" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cashel” is uncommon English (frequency #74,810 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,810
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cashel · cashel · English
cashel · rank #74,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,810
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH casbah
Nearest frequency peer: casbah (-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 “cashel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- calzone
calzone
25,197 corpus weight
- capacious
capacious
25,195 corpus weight
- carbuncle
carbuncle
25,194 corpus weight
- casbah
casbah
25,192 corpus weight
- cashel
cashel
25,191 corpus weight
- CBL
CBL
25,186 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cashel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cashel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæʃəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cashel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cashel is uncommon English at frequency #74,810 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkæʃəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cashel, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish caiseal, from Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of castell, castellum, castle, and château. The correct English form is cashel, spelled C-A-S-H-E-L.
Definition
- 1In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cashel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cashel is basically a ringfort (a circulr living area surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch) in which the bank surrounding the settlement is a stone wall; often, cashels did not have a surrounding ditch.
Etymology
From Irish caiseal, from Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of castell, castellum, castle, and château.
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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