Castañares
[kast̪aˈɲaɾes]
The verdict
“Castañares” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,205 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,205
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-castanares · Castañares · Spanish
Castañares · rank #98,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,205
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casabe
Nearest frequency peer: casabe (-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 “Castañares”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Cardoza
Cardoza
1,802 corpus weight
- carpinterías
carpinterías
1,800 corpus weight
- cartográfic…
cartográficas
1,799 corpus weight
- casabe
casabe
1,797 corpus weight
- Castañares
Castañares
1,796 corpus weight
- Celedón
Celedón
1,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Castañares” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Castañares |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kast̪aˈɲaɾes] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Castañares” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Castañares is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,205 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kast̪aˈɲaɾes]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Castañares doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Castañares, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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