Castonguay
The verdict
“Castonguay” is uncommon French (frequency #69,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,662
- 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-castonguay · Castonguay · French
Castonguay · rank #69,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,662
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartonnent
Nearest frequency peer: cartonnent (-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 « Castonguay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
- carnassier
carnassier
30,342 corpus weight
- Carsten
Carsten
30,341 corpus weight
- cartonnent
cartonnent
30,340 corpus weight
- Castonguay
Castonguay
30,339 corpus weight
- Catania
Catania
30,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Castonguay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Castonguay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Castonguay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Castonguay is uncommon French at frequency #69,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
Zero misspellings are on record for Castonguay in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Castonguay, spelled C-A-S-T-O-N-G-U-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Castonguay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le «père de l’assurance maladie» et l’un des grands bâtisseurs du Québec, Claude Castonguay, est décédé dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à sa résidence, laissant derrière lui un héritage colossal, salué par l’ensemble de la classe politique québécoise.
Steve Castonguay vient d’être cité en déontologie par la Commission municipale du Québec (CMQ) un tribunal administratif qui agit comme chien de garde en matière d’éthique pour les élus.
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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