castration
\kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“castration” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,936
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opération par laquelle on châtre un homme ou un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castration · castration · French
castration · rank #30,936 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,936
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castors
Nearest frequency peer: castors (-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 « castration »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caribou
caribou
69,068 corpus weight
- Cassius
Cassius
69,067 corpus weight
- castors
castors
69,066 corpus weight
- castration
castration
69,065 corpus weight
- cathos
cathos
69,064 corpus weight
- Cecilia
Cecilia
69,063 corpus weight
What this shows « castration » 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 | castration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « castration »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around castration (IPA \kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,936 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for castration, with forms such as "acstration", "casrtation", and "casstration". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cassation", "captation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is castration, spelled C-A-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Opération par laquelle on châtre un homme ou un animal.
- 2Opération analogue par laquelle on ôte à une plante la faculté de produire du pollen.
- 3Castration imaginaire qui peut mener à l’angoisse de castration puis au complexe de castration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how castration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À plusieurs reprises, il avait été appelé en consultation au quartier des hussards en l’absence du vétérinaire militaire. Il connut ainsi le lieutenant Galais et ils eurent une controverse sur la castration des poulains qui leur donna de l’estime l’un pour l’autre.
Beaucoup plus connue est la généralisation de la castration dans le monde arabe, par l’intermédiaire des eunuques de harem, ces « gardiens du lit » au sens littéral du mot, à qui revenait la responsabilité de la chasteté des femmes du sultan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acstration
- casrtation
- casstration
- castartion
- castraiton
- castratino
- castrationn
- castratoin
- castrattion
- castrration
- castrtaion
- casttration
- catsration
- ccastration
- csatration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of castration - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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