Châteaulin
\ʃɑ.to.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“Châteaulin” is uncommon French (frequency #75,506 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,506
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chateaulin · Châteaulin · French
Châteaulin · rank #75,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,506
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciblait
Nearest frequency peer: ciblait (+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 « Châteaulin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chevrotine
chevrotine
24,498 corpus weight
- chon
chon
24,497 corpus weight
- Châteaulin
Châteaulin
24,495 corpus weight
- ciblait
ciblait
24,494 corpus weight
- Circassiens
Circassiens
24,493 corpus weight
- cirrus
cirrus
24,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Châteaulin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Châteaulin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.to.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Châteaulin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Châteaulin is uncommon French at frequency #75,506 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃɑ.to.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Châteaulin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Châteaulin, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-A-U-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Châteaulin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De savants prêtres eux-mêmes m’ont dit spontanément qu’entre Carhaix et Huelgoat, dans l’arrondissement de Châteaulin, « vivent de véritables païens », des êtres d'une indépendance farouche, « des mécréants dont beaucoup, ne font même plus leurs Pâques ».
Le volailler va s’en sortir. Il va investir 55 millions dans « un nouvel outil d’abattage-découpe » à Châteaulin, avec l’appui sonnant et trébuchant des collectivités locales (« L’Humanité », 13/4). Et ce au nom des quelque 1 000 emplois à sauver, évidemment.
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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