château
[ʃɑ.to]
The verdict
“château” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,750 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,750
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Castillo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chateau · château · Spanish
château · rank #54,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chupado
Nearest frequency peer: chupado (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “château”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- chien
chien
45,255 corpus weight
- chiflado
chiflado
45,254 corpus weight
- chupada
chupada
45,253 corpus weight
- chupado
chupado
45,252 corpus weight
- château
château
45,251 corpus weight
- cilíndrica
cilíndrica
45,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “château” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | château |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃɑ.to] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “château” en español
Rare enough to double-check
château is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,750 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃɑ.to]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for château, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is château, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Castillo.
- 2Palacio.
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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