casto
\ˈkas.to\
The verdict
“casto” is uncommon French (frequency #81,861 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,861
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaste, continent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casto · casto · French
casto · rank #81,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,861
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassagne
Nearest frequency peer: Cassagne (-2 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 « casto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cartonnée
cartonnée
18,143 corpus weight
- Cassagne
Cassagne
18,142 corpus weight
- casto
casto
18,140 corpus weight
- CCL
CCL
18,137 corpus weight
- CCQ
CCQ
18,136 corpus weight
- censément
censément
18,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkas.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casto is uncommon French at frequency #81,861 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkas.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaste, continent.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for casto, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is casto, spelled C-A-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Chaste, continent.
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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