Castellón de la Plana
[kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana]
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Castellón de la Plana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kast̪eˈʝõn̪ d̪e la ˈplana] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Castellón de la Plana” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Ciudad 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.
- 2Provincia de España
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- 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.
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