casting

/[…]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,793

in German word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

casting is aGermanverb. It means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cast Pronounced […]. Often confused with of and ii.

Key facts for casting
PropertyValue
Headwordcasting
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,793
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of casting in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for casting is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,793 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cast".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for casting, with forms such as "acsting", "casitng", and "cassting". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is casting, spelled C-A-S-T-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cast

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acsting,casitng,cassting,castign,castingg,castinng,castnig,castting,catsing,ccasting,csating

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casting

Misspelling Variants of "casting"

acsting7casitng7cassting8castign7castingg8castinng8castnig7castting8
Misspelling Variants of "casting"

Frequency rank: #13,793 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "casting"?
"casting" is spelled C-A-S-T-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "casting" mean?
As a verb, "casting" means: Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs cast
What words are commonly confused with "casting"?
"casting" is commonly confused with "of", "ii", "TO". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casting"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casting" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casting" come from?
"casting" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.