castelão

/kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ/

//kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ// adj

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The verdict

“castelão” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #23,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,599
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,140
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de Castela, região da Espanha

Corpus desk

Index PT-castelao · castelão · Portuguese

castelão · rank #23,599 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,599
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH careta

Nearest frequency peer: careta (-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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “castelão”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “castelão” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

castelão vs castelo
88% similar
castelão vs catalão
75% similar
castelão vs cautela
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for castelão
PropertyValue
Headwordcastelão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
IPA/kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,599
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “castelão”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.castelãocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “careta” (#23,598), “cavar” (#23,601), “Camping” (#23,594). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “castelão” fica em #23,599. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around castelão (IPA /kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,599 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for castelão, with forms such as "acstelão", "casetlão", and "casstelão". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "castelo", "catalão", "cautela", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is castelão, spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    de Castela, região da Espanha
  2. 2
    relativo ou pertencente a um castelo

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acstelão
  • casetlão
  • casstelão
  • castellão
  • casteloã
  • casteãlo
  • castleão
  • casttelão
  • catselão
  • ccastelão
  • csatelão

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castelão - 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.

acstelão2casetlão2casstelão1castellão1casteloã2casteãlo2castleão2casttelão1
Edit distance from "castelão"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "castelão"?
"castelão" is spelled C-A-S-T-E-L-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ/.
What does "castelão" mean?
As an adjective, "castelão" means: de Castela, região da Espanha
What words are commonly confused with "castelão"?
"castelão" is commonly confused with "castelo", "catalão", "cautela". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "castelão"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "castelão" is /kas.te.'laŋ/ ou /kas.te.'la.ʊ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "castelão" come from?
"castelão" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "castelão", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Camping11 variantsbissexual11 variantsdeposição11 variantserradicar11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list