castrado
[kasˈt̪ɾað̞o]
The verdict
“castrado” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,403
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - El cantor, soprano o contralto, privado desde su infancia de los órganos genitales con el fin de conservar la voz aguda del niño, puesto que la voz se conserva en el mismo estado en que se halla al...
Corpus desk
Index ES-castrado · castrado · Spanish
castrado · rank #46,403 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,403
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cataloga
Nearest frequency peer: cataloga (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “castrado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- carnales
carnales
53,602 corpus weight
- cartagineses
cartagineses
53,601 corpus weight
- castrado
castrado
53,598 corpus weight
- cataloga
cataloga
53,597 corpus weight
- caímos
caímos
53,595 corpus weight
- cañadas
cañadas
53,594 corpus weight
What this shows “castrado” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | castrado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kasˈt̪ɾað̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “castrado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around castrado (IPA [kasˈt̪ɾað̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,403 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "El cantor, soprano o contralto, privado desde su infancia de los órganos genitales con el fin de conservar la voz aguda del niño, puesto que la voz se conserva en el mismo estado en que se halla al...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for castrado, with forms such as "acstrado", "casrtado", and "casstrado". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Castro", "costado", "centrado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is castrado, spelled C-A-S-T-R-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1El cantor, soprano o contralto, privado desde su infancia de los órganos genitales con el fin de conservar la voz aguda del niño, puesto que la voz se conserva en el mismo estado en que se halla al practicar la operación; se tiene por inventora de esta cruel costumbre á la reina Semíramis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstrado
- casrtado
- casstrado
- castardo
- castraddo
- castraod
- castrdao
- castrrado
- casttrado
- catsrado
- ccastrado
- csatrado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castrado - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "castrado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).