casting
\kas.tiŋ\
The verdict
“casting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,538. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,538
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recherche et choix des artistes (acteurs, danseurs, etc.) pour une production, on recommande le terme audition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casting · casting · French
casting · rank #7,538 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,538
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassation
Nearest frequency peer: cassation (-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 « casting »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabine
cabine
92,466 corpus weight
- capitalisme
capitalisme
92,465 corpus weight
- cassation
cassation
92,464 corpus weight
- casting
casting
92,463 corpus weight
- center
center
92,462 corpus weight
- champignons
champignons
92,461 corpus weight
What this shows « casting » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « casting »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around casting (IPA \kas.tiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,538 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for casting, with forms such as "acsting", "casitng", and "cassting". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "castings", "casino", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is casting, spelled C-A-S-T-I-N-G.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’ai rendez-vous pour un casting, mon agent se débrouille toujours pour savoir de quoi il s’agit.
Les deux zigotos étaient les pistonnés de ce casting et Olivier Kader était le réalisateur en personne de ce spot. Jean, toujours à genoux, les jambes douloureuses, assistait, impuissant, au trucage odieux de ce casting.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsting
- casitng
- cassting
- castign
- castingg
- castinng
- castnig
- castting
- catsing
- ccasting
- csating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casting - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).