caste
\kast\
The verdict
“caste” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,315
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacune des tribus ou classes qui partagent la société de certains pays comme l’Inde ou l’ancienne Égypte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caste · caste · French
caste · rank #16,315 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,315
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caillou
Nearest frequency peer: caillou (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « caste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Burton
Burton
83,689 corpus weight
- buteurs
buteurs
83,688 corpus weight
- caillou
caillou
83,687 corpus weight
- caste
caste
83,686 corpus weight
- century
century
83,685 corpus weight
- changée
changée
83,684 corpus weight
What this shows « caste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | caste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kast\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around caste (IPA \kast\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,315 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for caste, with forms such as "acste", "caset", and "casste". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cat", "CST", "Cte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caste, spelled C-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Chacune des tribus ou classes qui partagent la société de certains pays comme l’Inde ou l’ancienne Égypte.
- 2Classe de la société, que l’on considère alors comme exclusive et fermée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Née dans l’Inde, pays de caste et d’exclusion, elle a foulé aux pieds la distinction des castes, elle a dit que tous les peuples étaient appelés; persécuté par les brahmes, le bouddhisme a eu la gloire du martyre; il a scellé sa foi à l’humanité de son sang.
La Perse n'a point de caste. Tous sont égaux chez elle au point de vue religieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acste
- caset
- casste
- castte
- catse
- ccaste
- csate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caste - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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