castrer
The verdict
“castrer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,843
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Châtrer ; couper les testicules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castrer · castrer · French
castrer · rank #53,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,843
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartésienne
Nearest frequency peer: cartésienne (-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 « castrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carrosseries
carrosseries
46,161 corpus weight
- cartésienne
cartésienne
46,159 corpus weight
- castrer
castrer
46,158 corpus weight
- Catalunya
Catalunya
46,157 corpus weight
- Caucasien
Caucasien
46,156 corpus weight
- causal
causal
46,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « castrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castrer is uncommon French at frequency #53,843 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how castrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Asepsie. Mesures de précaution que l'on doit prendre après une opération chirurgicale quelconque, pratiquée sur les animaux de basse-cour, notamment lorsqu'on castre les coquelets et les lapereaux, pour éviter l'infection des plaies.
Il faut aussi castrer les jeunes béliers, car les moutons vivent célibataires. On n’a jamais vu de mouton marié. Ce serait un désordre effroyable. Il n’y a qu’à voir ce qui se passe chez les hommes, qui croient pouvoir se passer de cette utile précaution. Tous les journaux sont pleins des conséquences tragiques de leur funeste étourderie.
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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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