castello
\ka.stɛl.lo\
The verdict
“castello” is uncommon French (frequency #59,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,148
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division administrative la plus grande de la République de Saint-Marin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castello · castello · French
castello · rank #59,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,148
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassage
Nearest frequency peer: cassage (-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 « castello »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carpates
Carpates
40,856 corpus weight
- carpet
carpet
40,855 corpus weight
- cassage
cassage
40,854 corpus weight
- castello
castello
40,853 corpus weight
- catalytique
catalytique
40,852 corpus weight
- Cavalaire
Cavalaire
40,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castello » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castello |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.stɛl.lo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castello » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castello is uncommon French at frequency #59,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.stɛl.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Division administrative la plus grande de la République de Saint-Marin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for castello, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is castello, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Division administrative la plus grande de la République de Saint-Marin.
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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