cast up one's accounts
"cast-up-one-s-accounts" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cast up one's accounts” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cast-up-one-s-accounts · cast up one's accounts · English
cast up one's accounts · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cast up one's accounts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cast up one's accounts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cast up one's accounts is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cast up one's accounts, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cast up one's accounts, spelled C-A-S-T- -U-P- -O-N-E-'-S- -A-C-C-O-U-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon.
- 2To vomit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cast up one's accounts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.
If a man should cast up his accounts once a week, or once a month, he may not be able to discern that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.