Castex
\kas.tɛks\
The verdict
“Castex” is uncommon French (frequency #50,707 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,707
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castex · Castex · French
Castex · rank #50,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,707
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caribous
Nearest frequency peer: caribous (-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 « Castex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- captiver
captiver
49,297 corpus weight
- cardan
cardan
49,296 corpus weight
- caribous
caribous
49,295 corpus weight
- Castex
Castex
49,294 corpus weight
- caïman
caïman
49,293 corpus weight
- cella
cella
49,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Castex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Castex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kas.tɛks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Castex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Castex is uncommon French at frequency #50,707 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kas.tɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Castex doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Castex, spelled C-A-S-T-E-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Castex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nouveauté 2015 : la famille Castex a installé des parcs gonflables à la fois terrestre (y compris pour les enfants) et aquatique avec un toboggan de 5 m de haut pour un plongeon inoubliable !
Pour remplacer Gérard Collomb, Emmanuel Macron et Édouard Philippe ont immédiatement une autre idée : une personnalité de la société civile, Jean Castex, maire de Prades, dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, délégué interministériel aux jeux olympiques de 2024.
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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