castré
\kas.tʁe\
The verdict
“castré” is uncommon French (frequency #51,339 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,339
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont on a coupé les gonades (testicules pour les mâles, ovaires pour les femelles).
Corpus desk
Index FR-castre · castré · French
castré · rank #51,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,339
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caravelle
Nearest frequency peer: caravelle (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « castré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cant
cant
48,666 corpus weight
- cappella
cappella
48,665 corpus weight
- caravelle
caravelle
48,663 corpus weight
- castré
castré
48,662 corpus weight
- CCN
CCN
48,659 corpus weight
- centralisat…
centralisateur
48,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kas.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castré is uncommon French at frequency #51,339 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kas.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dont on a coupé les gonades (testicules pour les mâles, ovaires pour les femelles).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for castré, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is castré, spelled C-A-S-T-R-É.
Definition
- 1Dont on a coupé les gonades (testicules pour les mâles, ovaires pour les femelles).
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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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