Castaños
[kasˈt̪aɲos]
The verdict
“Castaños” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,967
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-castanos · Castaños · Spanish
Castaños · rank #29,967 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casal
Nearest frequency peer: casal (-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 “Castaños”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cargaba
cargaba
70,037 corpus weight
- casal
casal
70,035 corpus weight
- Castaños
Castaños
70,034 corpus weight
- cavallo
cavallo
70,033 corpus weight
- cavidades
cavidades
70,032 corpus weight
- ceda
ceda
70,031 corpus weight
What this shows “Castaños” 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 | Castaños |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kasˈt̪aɲos] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Castaños”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Castaños (IPA [kasˈt̪aɲos]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,967 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Castaños, with forms such as "acstaños", "casatños", and "casstaños". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "castas", "castigos", "costados", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Castaños, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-O-S.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstaños
- casatños
- casstaños
- castaoñs
- castañoss
- castañso
- casttaños
- castñaos
- catsaños
- ccastaños
- csataños
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Castaños - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Castaños", 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).