castaño

[kasˈt̪aɲo]

/[kasˈt̪aɲo]/ noun

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The verdict

“castaño” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,542
frequency rank, Spanish
8,288
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Castanea sativa) Árbol robusto de la familia de las fagáceas de tronco grueso, con corteza lisa al principio y agrietada al envejecer. Las hojas son lanceoladas, largas, brillantes y con el margen...

Corpus desk

Index ES-castano · castaño · Spanish

castaño · rank #12,542 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,542
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,288
  • PHOTO-FINISH casillas

Nearest frequency peer: casillas (-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 “castaño”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “castaño” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

castaño vs casto
71% similar
castaño vs Castro
57% similar
castaño vs castas
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for castaño
PropertyValue
Headwordcastaño
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kasˈt̪aɲo]
Letters7
Frequency rank#12,542
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “castaño”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).castañocae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “casillas” (#12,541), “Castellón” (#12,543), “cascos” (#12,540). Entre 8,288 lemas con “C”, “castaño” va en #12,542. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around castaño (IPA [kasˈt̪aɲo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,542 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for castaño, with forms such as "acstaño", "casatño", and "casstaño". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "casto", "Castro", "castas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is castaño, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Castanea sativa) Árbol robusto de la familia de las fagáceas de tronco grueso, con corteza lisa al principio y agrietada al envejecer. Las hojas son lanceoladas, largas, brillantes y con el margen dentado. En la base de las inflorescencias masculinas se hallan las femeninas. Su fruto las castañas que en número de dos o tres se encuentran encerradas por un envoltorio espinoso llamado erizo.
  2. 2
    Madera de este árbol.

This word in other languages

brown(English)chatâignier(Français)Edelkastanie(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acstaño
  • casatño
  • casstaño
  • castaoñ
  • casttaño
  • castñao
  • catsaño
  • ccastaño
  • csataño

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castaño - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acstaño2casatño2casstaño1castaoñ2casttaño1castñao2catsaño2ccastaño1
Edit distance from "castaño"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "castaño"?
"castaño" is spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kasˈt̪aɲo].
What does "castaño" mean?
As a noun, "castaño" means: (Castanea sativa) Árbol robusto de la familia de las fagáceas de tronco grueso, con corteza lisa al principio y agrietada al envejecer. Las hojas son lanceoladas, largas, brillantes y con el margen...
What words are commonly confused with "castaño"?
"castaño" is commonly confused with "casto", "Castro", "castas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "castaño"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "castaño" is [kasˈt̪aɲo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "castaño" come from?
"castaño" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "castaño", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cantera#12,537cierren#12,548circula#12,549citados#12,550

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

cascos9 variantscambié9 variantscorpus9 variantscubrió9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list