castrés
\kas.tʁe\
The verdict
“castrés” is uncommon French (frequency #80,969 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,969
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe castrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-castres · castrés · French
castrés · rank #80,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,969
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carotène
Nearest frequency peer: carotène (-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 « castrés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canidés
canidés
19,037 corpus weight
- cannibal
cannibal
19,036 corpus weight
- carafes
carafes
19,035 corpus weight
- carotène
carotène
19,033 corpus weight
- castrés
castrés
19,032 corpus weight
- causèrent
causèrent
19,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « castrés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castrés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kas.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « castrés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
castrés is uncommon French at frequency #80,969 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kas.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe castrer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for castrés, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is castrés, spelled C-A-S-T-R-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe castrer.
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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