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Which to use

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

#7,538
“casting” frequency rank
#45,496
“castings” frequency rank
53034
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casting castings
Definition Recherche et choix des artistes (acteurs, danseurs, etc.) pour une production, on recommande le terme audition. Pluriel de casting.

Same sound, different letters: casting vs castings

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
casting
8 ch
castings

Homophone desk: casting vs castings

This is the hard kind. casting and castings are pronounced identically (\kas.tiŋ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “casting” sits inside “castings”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casting is recorded at frequency rank #7,538, classified as anoun, pronounced \kas.tiŋ\. 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 53034, this pair ranks #143,536 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of casting vs castings

Shared letters: acginst. Private to "casting": -. Private to "castings": -.

"casting" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "castings" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • castingacsting · casitng · cassting · castign · castingg · castinng · castnig · castting
  • castingsacstings · casitngs · casstings · castigns · castinggs · castingss · castinngs · castinsg

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "casting" and "castings" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kas.tiŋ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "casting" vs "castings" - which ranks higher?
"casting" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,538 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.

What to do next

"casting" and "castings" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casting" 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 #143,536 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casting" 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 #143,536 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