castañas
[kasˈt̪aɲas]
The verdict
“castañas” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,547
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino plural de castaño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-castanas · castañas · Spanish
castañas · rank #32,547 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,547
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH catch
Nearest frequency peer: catch (+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 “castañas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cargarse
cargarse
67,457 corpus weight
- Carpio
Carpio
67,456 corpus weight
- castañas
castañas
67,454 corpus weight
- catch
catch
67,453 corpus weight
- cañerías
cañerías
67,452 corpus weight
- Cecilio
Cecilio
67,451 corpus weight
What this shows “castañas” 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 | castañas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kasˈt̪aɲas] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “castañas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around castañas (IPA [kasˈt̪aɲas]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,547 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del femenino plural de castaño.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for castañas, with forms such as "acstañas", "casatñas", and "casstañas". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "castas", "castaño", "Castaños", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is castañas, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino plural de castaño.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstañas
- casatñas
- casstañas
- castaañs
- castañass
- castañsa
- casttañas
- castñaas
- catsañas
- ccastañas
- csatañas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castañas - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "castañas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).