castello
"castello" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“castello” is uncommon English (frequency #57,925 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,925
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipality of San Marino.
Corpus desk
Index EN-castello · castello · English
castello · rank #57,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,925
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carting
Nearest frequency peer: carting (-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 “castello”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cardin
Cardin
42,079 corpus weight
- carting
carting
42,077 corpus weight
- castello
castello
42,076 corpus weight
- Castilian
Castilian
42,075 corpus weight
- catastrophi…
catastrophically
42,074 corpus weight
- Catriona
Catriona
42,073 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “castello” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castello |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “castello” in English
Rare enough to double-check
castello is uncommon English at frequency #57,925 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipality of San Marino.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for castello, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian castello. The correct English form is castello, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1A municipality of San Marino.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how castello appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian castello.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).