Carcasona
[kaɾkaˈsona]
The verdict
“Carcasona” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,978 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,978
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad amurallada del sur de Francia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-carcasona · Carcasona · Spanish
Carcasona · rank #94,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,978
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH carca
Nearest frequency peer: carca (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Carcasona”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cancelarán
cancelarán
5,030 corpus weight
- cancillerías
cancillerías
5,029 corpus weight
- capilaridad
capilaridad
5,026 corpus weight
- carca
carca
5,024 corpus weight
- Carcasona
Carcasona
5,023 corpus weight
- Casiopea
Casiopea
5,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Carcasona” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carcasona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kaɾkaˈsona] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Carcasona” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Carcasona is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,978 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kaɾkaˈsona]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ciudad amurallada del sur de Francia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Carcasona in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Carcasona, spelled C-A-R-C-A-S-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad amurallada del sur de Francia.
This word in other languages
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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