castrer
The verdict
“castrer” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,843 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #53,843
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Châtrer ; couper les testicules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “castrer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for castrer is 7 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #53,843 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for castrer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is castrer, spelled C-A-S-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Châtrer ; couper les testicules.
- 2Avoir un comportement castrateur.
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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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Using “castrer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-S-T-R-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.