castille
\kas.tij\
The verdict
“castille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,231
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite querelle ; débat, différend peu important.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castille · castille · French
castille · rank #19,231 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,231
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caprices
Nearest frequency peer: caprices (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « castille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cachant
cachant
80,773 corpus weight
- capitulation
capitulation
80,772 corpus weight
- caprices
caprices
80,771 corpus weight
- castille
castille
80,770 corpus weight
- Cci
Cci
80,769 corpus weight
- cherry
cherry
80,768 corpus weight
What this shows « castille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.tij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « castille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around castille (IPA \kas.tij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,231 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite querelle ; débat, différend peu important.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for castille, with forms such as "acstille", "casitlle", and "casstille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "castle", "Castillo", "caille", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is castille, spelled C-A-S-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite querelle ; débat, différend peu important.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how castille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ont toujours quelques castilles ; mais des joueurs, ça se pardonne tout.
Pendant deux ans, sauf quelques castilles de rien du tout, tout alla bien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstille
- casitlle
- casstille
- castile
- castilel
- castlile
- casttille
- catsille
- ccastille
- csatille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).