Castiglione
"castiglione" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Castiglione” is uncommon English (frequency #84,074 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,074
- 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-castiglione · Castiglione · English
Castiglione · rank #84,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,074
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catched
Nearest frequency peer: catched (+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 “Castiglione”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cartes
cartes
15,930 corpus weight
- Caryn
Caryn
15,929 corpus weight
- Castiglione
Castiglione
15,927 corpus weight
- catched
catched
15,926 corpus weight
- Catterick
Catterick
15,925 corpus weight
- caul
caul
15,924 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Castiglione” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Castiglione |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Castiglione” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Castiglione is uncommon English at frequency #84,074 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Italian.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Castiglione, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Castiglione. The correct English form is Castiglione, spelled C-A-S-T-I-G-L-I-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Italian.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Castiglione.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).