médicastre
\me.di.kastʁ\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médicastre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.di.kastʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médicastre » en français
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
- 1Médecin ignorant et hâbleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médicastre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette époque (1856), une médicastre sans aucun diplôme avait su capter la confiance des malades qui se rendaient en foule à ses consultations.
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.
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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.