castral
\kas.tʁal\
The verdict
“castral” is uncommon French (frequency #79,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,142
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un château, à un château-fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castral · castral · French
castral · rank #79,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,142
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caricaturales
Nearest frequency peer: caricaturales (-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 « castral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- captez
captez
20,862 corpus weight
- caricatural…
caricaturales
20,860 corpus weight
- castral
castral
20,859 corpus weight
- catastrophi…
catastrophisme
20,858 corpus weight
- CCG
CCG
20,857 corpus weight
- Cers
Cers
20,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kas.tʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castral is uncommon French at frequency #79,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kas.tʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à un château, à un château-fort.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for castral, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is castral, spelled C-A-S-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à un château, à un château-fort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how castral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un site castral.
Une chapelle castrale.
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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