podcast

/\pɔd.kast\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,866

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

podcast is aFrenchnoun. It means: Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série. Pronounced \pɔd.kast\. Often confused with podcasts.

Key facts for podcast
PropertyValue
Headwordpodcast
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔd.kast\
Letters7
Frequency rank#13,866
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of podcast in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for podcast is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔd.kast\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,866 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for podcast, with forms such as "opdcast", "pdocast", and "pocdast". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "podcasts", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is podcast, spelled P-O-D-C-A-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for podcast

Misspelling Variants of "podcast"

opdcast7pdocast7pocdast7podacst7podcasst8podcastt8podcats7podccast8
Misspelling Variants of "podcast"

Frequency rank: #13,866 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "podcast"?
"podcast" is spelled P-O-D-C-A-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔd.kast\.
What does "podcast" mean?
As a noun, "podcast" means: Émission audio ou vidéo diffusée par Internet, souvent en série.
What words are commonly confused with "podcast"?
"podcast" is commonly confused with "podcasts". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "podcast"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "podcast" is \pɔd.kast\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "podcast" come from?
"podcast" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.