castrated
/kæsˈtɹeɪtɪd/
"castrated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“castrated” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,725
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
Corpus desk
Index EN-castrated · castrated · English
castrated · rank #39,725 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,725
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cava
Nearest frequency peer: cava (+2 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “castrated”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- camcorder
camcorder
60,280 corpus weight
- Canola
Canola
60,279 corpus weight
- castrated
castrated
60,276 corpus weight
- cava
cava
60,274 corpus weight
- CBP
CBP
60,273 corpus weight
- CD4
CD4
60,272 corpus weight
What this shows “castrated” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castrated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kæsˈtɹeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “castrated”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around castrated (IPA /kæsˈtɹeɪtɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,725 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for castrated, with forms such as "acstrated", "casrtated", and "casstrated". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 English form is castrated, spelled C-A-S-T-R-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstrated
- casrtated
- casstrated
- castarted
- castraetd
- castratde
- castratedd
- castratted
- castrrated
- castrtaed
- casttrated
- catsrated
- ccastrated
- csatrated
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castrated - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).