castaña
[kasˈt̪aɲa]
The verdict
“castaña” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,530
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruto del castaño (Castanea spp.), una núcula de tres a cuatro cm de diámetro, recubierta de una cúpula espinosa. Son muy sabrosas y nutritivas, consumiéndose asadas, hervidas, confitadas o como ha...
Corpus desk
Index ES-castana · castaña · Spanish
castaña · rank #29,530 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catarata
Nearest frequency peer: catarata (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “castaña”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- canguro
canguro
70,474 corpus weight
- canónigo
canónigo
70,473 corpus weight
- castaña
castaña
70,471 corpus weight
- catarata
catarata
70,470 corpus weight
- celeridad
celeridad
70,469 corpus weight
- Cerdeña
Cerdeña
70,468 corpus weight
What this shows “castaña” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castaña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kasˈt̪aɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “castaña”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around castaña (IPA [kasˈt̪aɲa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,530 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for castaña, with forms such as "acstaña", "casatña", and "casstaña". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "castas", "castaño", "costaba", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is castaña, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Fruto del castaño (Castanea spp.), una núcula de tres a cuatro cm de diámetro, recubierta de una cúpula espinosa. Son muy sabrosas y nutritivas, consumiéndose asadas, hervidas, confitadas o como harina.
- 2Golpe dado con el puño o la mano abierta.
- 3Cojinetes que los caballos tienen en los carpos y los tarsos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstaña
- casatña
- casstaña
- castaañ
- casttaña
- castñaa
- catsaña
- ccastaña
- csataña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castaña - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "castaña", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).