kastrieren
[kasˈtʁiːʁən]
The verdict
“kastrieren” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,816
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die männlichen oder weiblichen Fortpflanzungsorgane entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kastrieren · kastrieren · German
kastrieren · rank #49,816 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,816
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH karge
Nearest frequency peer: karge (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „kastrieren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kaffeetrink…
Kaffeetrinken
50,188 corpus weight
- kantig
kantig
50,187 corpus weight
- karge
karge
50,186 corpus weight
- kastrieren
kastrieren
50,185 corpus weight
- Kaufempfehl…
Kaufempfehlung
50,184 corpus weight
- Kaufhäuser
Kaufhäuser
50,183 corpus weight
What this shows „kastrieren“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kastrieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kasˈtʁiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „kastrieren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around kastrieren (IPA [kasˈtʁiːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,816 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for kastrieren, with forms such as "akstrieren", "kasrtieren", and "kasstrieren". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "kastriert", "kassieren", "Karrieren", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kastrieren, spelled K-A-S-T-R-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1die männlichen oder weiblichen Fortpflanzungsorgane entfernen
- 2die Keimdrüsen des Menschen entfernen oder zerstören
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kastrieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Arzt hat die Katze und den Kater kastriert.
„Gefangene werden kastriert, so berichten Augenzeugen, als Zielscheiben benutzt, lebendig verbrannt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akstrieren
- kasrtieren
- kasstrieren
- kastireren
- kastreiren
- kastrieern
- kastrierenn
- kastrierne
- kastrierren
- kastrireen
- kastrrieren
- kasttrieren
- katsrieren
- kkastrieren
- ksatrieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kastrieren - 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.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kastrieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).