casta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,994
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
casta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grupo unido por una ascendencia común. Pronounced [ˈkast̪a]. Often confused with cat and CTA.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkast̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for casta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkast̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,994 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for casta, with forms such as "acsta", "casat", and "cassta". 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, "cat", "CTA", "cosa", 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 Spanish form is casta, spelled C-A-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grupo unido por una ascendencia común.
- 2Por extensión, naturaleza o clase de una cosa o persona.
- 3Grupo social de pertenencia hereditaria, endogámico y asociado vinculantemente con ciertos oficios y rangos, prototípicamente representado por el sistema hindú, adonde la pertenencia de casta era absolutamente irreductible.
- 4En las colonias americanas, las castas eran los grupos raciales de sangre mezclada, lo que producía distintos tipos de mestizaje. Era muy difícil superar la mancha de casta, salvo por razones económicas.
- 5Por extensión, grupo social que por su estado, religión, oficio u otra condición forma una clase separada.
- 6Por extensión, grupo o clase política que se beneficia de ciertos privilegios y busca perpetuarse en el poder a expensas de todos los ciudadanos.
- 7Cada uno de los grupos especializados funcionalmente en que se dividen las comunidades de insectos sociales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsta,casat,cassta,castta,catsa,ccasta,csata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casta
Misspelling Variants of "casta"
Frequency rank: #10,994 in Spanish
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: