castor
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,363
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
castor is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quadrupède mammifère rongeur semi-aquatique à queue plate, qui habite ordinairement dans les lieux aquatiques. Pronounced \kas.tɔʁ\. Often confused with caton and castro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for castor is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kas.tɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,363 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for castor, with forms such as "acstor", "casotr", and "casstor". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "caton", "castro", "custom", 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 castor, spelled C-A-S-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quadrupède mammifère rongeur semi-aquatique à queue plate, qui habite ordinairement dans les lieux aquatiques.
- 2Sa fourrure.
- 3Élève des classes préparatoires au concours des Écoles d’Arts et Métiers.
- 4Dans le monde du négoce en France, désigne un particulier qui construit son habitation largement seul selon le mode de l’autoconstruction.
- 5Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté passant. À rapprocher de bièvre, connil, écureuil, lapin et lièvre.
- 6Personne appelant à « faire barrage » à un parti jugé extrémiste lors d’élections afin qu’il n’atteigne pas le pouvoir.
- 7Type de cuir de veau chamoisé où la peau n'est pas refendue, on l'utilise pour la confection de chaussures. → voir veaulaque
- 8Plus jeune catégorie de scouts, entre 5 et 7 ans, ou entre 6 et 8 ans.
- 9Étoffe de laine foulonnée rendue imperméable par la conservation d’une partie du suint, utilisée notamment pour la confection de chapeaux et de vêtements de marin. Drap en serge de laine cardée, utilisé pour la fabrication de manteaux et dont la contexture est la même que celle du cachemire d’Écosse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acstor,casotr,casstor,castorr,casttor,catsor,ccastor,csator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "castor"
Frequency rank: #17,363 in French
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