castellum
The verdict
“castellum” is uncommon French (frequency #93,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,580
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort, forteresse, château fort, ville fortifiée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castellum · castellum · French
castellum · rank #93,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,580
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castra
Nearest frequency peer: castra (+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 « castellum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caprine
caprine
6,425 corpus weight
- Carélie
Carélie
6,423 corpus weight
- castellum
castellum
6,421 corpus weight
- castra
castra
6,420 corpus weight
- catharisme
catharisme
6,419 corpus weight
- Cathie
Cathie
6,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castellum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castellum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castellum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castellum is uncommon French at frequency #93,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for castellum in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is castellum, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1Fort, forteresse, château fort, ville fortifiée.
- 2Rempart, citadelle, asile, repaire, refuge.
- 3Réservoir d'un aqueduc, château d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how castellum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
templum Castoris fuit arx civium perditorum... castellum forensis latrocinii
urbem philosophiae, mihi crede, proditis, dum castella defendis
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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