casting
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,538
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
casting is aFrenchnoun. It means: Recherche et choix des artistes (acteurs, danseurs, etc.) pour une production, on recommande le terme audition. Pronounced \kas.tiŋ\. It ranks #7,538 in French word frequency. Often confused with catin and castings.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for casting is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kas.tiŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,538 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for casting, with forms such as "acsting", "casitng", and "cassting". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "castings", "casino", 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 French form is casting, spelled C-A-S-T-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recherche et choix des artistes (acteurs, danseurs, etc.) pour une production, on recommande le terme audition.
- 2Distribution des rôles dans une production (film, théâtre etc.) ; on recommande le terme distribution artistique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsting,casitng,cassting,castign,castingg,castinng,castnig,castting,catsing,ccasting,csating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "casting"
Frequency rank: #7,538 in French
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