podcast
\pɔd.kast\
The verdict
“podcast” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,866
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.
Corpus desk
Index FR-podcast · podcast · French
podcast · rank #13,866 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,866
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plais
Nearest frequency peer: plais (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « podcast »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- piloter
piloter
86,138 corpus weight
- pink
pink
86,137 corpus weight
- plais
plais
86,136 corpus weight
- podcast
podcast
86,135 corpus weight
- positivement
positivement
86,134 corpus weight
- possessions
possessions
86,133 corpus weight
What this shows « podcast » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | podcast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔd.kast\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « podcast »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around podcast (IPA \pɔd.kast\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,866 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for podcast, with forms such as "opdcast", "pdocast", and "pocdast". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "podcasts", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is podcast, spelled P-O-D-C-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how podcast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2015, 270 millions de podcasts Radio France ont été téléchargés, 95 millions d’Europe1. Et du côté de RFI, environ 4,6 millions de podcasts par mois ont été écoutés en 2015.
La journaliste Hélène Goutany ne mâche pas ses mots, pas plus qu’elle ne ménage ses efforts dans les deux épisodes d’enquête qu’elle livre au podcast Programme B.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opdcast
- pdocast
- pocdast
- podacst
- podcasst
- podcastt
- podcats
- podccast
- podcsat
- poddcast
- ppodcast
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of podcast - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "podcast", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).