castella
The verdict
“castella” is uncommon French (frequency #77,332 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,332
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau japonais à base de sucre, farine, œufs, et sirop de malt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castella · castella · French
castella · rank #77,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,332
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castillane
Nearest frequency peer: castillane (+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 « castella »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cariatides
cariatides
22,674 corpus weight
- casemates
casemates
22,672 corpus weight
- castella
castella
22,669 corpus weight
- castillane
castillane
22,668 corpus weight
- catering
catering
22,666 corpus weight
- cavistes
cavistes
22,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castella » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castella » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castella is uncommon French at frequency #77,332 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gâteau japonais à base de sucre, farine, œufs, et sirop de malt.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for castella, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 castella, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Gâteau japonais à base de sucre, farine, œufs, et sirop de malt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how castella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle pâtisserie proposait des castellas dont la génoise moelleuse parfumait toute la rue et s’était taillé une si bonne réputation dans tout Osaka qu’il fallait faire la queue chaque matin pour y commander un gâteau.
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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