Castellón de la Plana

[kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]

/[kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]/ name

The verdict

“Castellón de la Plana” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ciudad de España, que supera las 150 mil almas. Su ubicación actual data de 1251, cuando se trasladó desde lo alto de una colina donde hoy se encuentra la ermita de Santa Magdalena. Sitio de interé...

Key facts for Castellón de la Plana
PropertyValue
HeadwordCastellón de la Plana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Castellón de la Plana” sits in Spanish frequency

Castellón de la Plana falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Castellón de la Plana is 21 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Castellón de la Plana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Castellón de la Plana, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-Ó-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-L-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de España, que supera las 150 mil almas. Su ubicación actual data de 1251, cuando se trasladó desde lo alto de una colina donde hoy se encuentra la ermita de Santa Magdalena. Sitio de interés son la torre campanario El-Fadri, la Catedral Santa María, la Basílica de Lledó, la Ermita de S. Jaume de Fadrell. A cuatro kilómetros se encuentra el puerto de el Grau, y junto algunas playas como la Playa del Pinar y la Playa del Serradal. Sus habitantes son llamados castellonenses.
  2. 2
    Provincia de España

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Castellón de la Plana"?
"Castellón de la Plana" is spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-Ó-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-L-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana].
What does "Castellón de la Plana" mean?
As a proper noun, "Castellón de la Plana" means: Ciudad de España, que supera las 150 mil almas. Su ubicación actual data de 1251, cuando se trasladó desde lo alto de una colina donde hoy se encuentra la ermita de Santa Magdalena. Sitio de interé...
How do you pronounce "Castellón de la Plana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Castellón de la Plana" is [kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “Castellón de la Plana”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-S-T-E-L-L-Ó-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-L-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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