castell
The verdict
“castell” is uncommon French (frequency #86,525 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,525
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour humaine typique catalane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castell · castell · French
castell · rank #86,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,525
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casquer
Nearest frequency peer: casquer (-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 « castell »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carpelles
carpelles
13,479 corpus weight
- cartoucherie
cartoucherie
13,478 corpus weight
- casquer
casquer
13,477 corpus weight
- castell
castell
13,476 corpus weight
- castriste
castriste
13,475 corpus weight
- cataloguée
cataloguée
13,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castell » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castell |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castell » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castell is uncommon French at frequency #86,525 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour humaine typique catalane.".
No misspelling variants are generated for castell in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is castell, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Tour humaine typique catalane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how castell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’équipe des Castellers de Villafranca vient d’achever son « castell » (château, en catalan).
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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