médicastre

\me.di.kastʁ\

/\me.di.kastʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“médicastre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin ignorant et hâbleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-medicastre · médicastre · French

médicastre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for médicastre
PropertyValue
Headwordmédicastre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.di.kastʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « médicastre » en français

médicastrereste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

médicastre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.di.kastʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin ignorant et hâbleur.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for médicastre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is médicastre, spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-S-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Médecin ignorant et hâbleur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how médicastre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À cette époque (1856), une médicastre sans aucun diplôme avait su capter la confiance des malades qui se rendaient en foule à ses consultations.
  2. De même qu’une lèpre, l’avidité du siècle ravageait l’Église, courbait des moines sur des inventaires et des factures, transformait les supérieurs en des confiseurs et des médicastres, les frères lais et les convers, en de vulgaires emballeurs et de bas potards.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "médicastre"?
"médicastre" is spelled M-É-D-I-C-A-S-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.di.kastʁ\.
What does "médicastre" mean?
As a noun, "médicastre" means: Médecin ignorant et hâbleur.
How do you pronounce "médicastre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médicastre" is \me.di.kastʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médicastre" come from?
"médicastre" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list