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“casinos” and “castings” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#20,077
“casinos” frequency rank
#45,496
“castings” frequency rank
65573
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casinos castings
Definition Pluriel de casino. Pluriel de casting.

Where the eye mixes casinos and castings

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. casinos runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against castings's 8 (CVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
casinos
8 ch
castings

Visual trap between casinos and castings

A purely visual mix-up. casinos (\ka.zi.no\) and castings (\kas.tiŋ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65573, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casinos is recorded at frequency rank #20,077, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.zi.no\. castings is at rank #45,496, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kas.tiŋ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 65573, this pair ranks #71,721 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of casinos vs castings

Shared letters: acins. Private to "casinos": o. Private to "castings": gt.

"casinos" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "castings" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casinos ← acsinos · caisnos · casinnos · casinoss · casinso · casions · casnios · cassinos
  • castings ← acstings · casitngs · casstings · castigns · castinggs · castingss · castinngs · castinsg

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "casinos" for "castings" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ka.zi.no\ versus \kas.tiŋ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "casinos" or "castings"?
"casinos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,077 in our French list, against #45,496 for "castings". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "casinos" and "castings" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casinos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "castings" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #71,721 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casinos" and "castings" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "campings vs castings". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #71,721 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list