castagnettes
\kas.ta.ɲɛt\
The verdict
“castagnettes” is uncommon French (frequency #80,028 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,028
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de castagnette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castagnettes · castagnettes · French
castagnettes · rank #80,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,028
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartonnage
Nearest frequency peer: cartonnage (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « castagnettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carbonées
carbonées
19,976 corpus weight
- carpien
carpien
19,975 corpus weight
- cartonnage
cartonnage
19,974 corpus weight
- castagnettes
castagnettes
19,973 corpus weight
- castellano
castellano
19,972 corpus weight
- cavalières
cavalières
19,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castagnettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castagnettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.ta.ɲɛt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #80,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castagnettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castagnettes is uncommon French at frequency #80,028 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kas.ta.ɲɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de castagnette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for castagnettes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is castagnettes, spelled C-A-S-T-A-G-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de castagnette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how castagnettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais acheté une vieille 4L dont les cardans exténués rendaient d’inquiétants sons de castagnettes et je roulais des journées entières sur des routes où la mort guettait à chaque virage.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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