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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "casting" and "castings" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "casting" vs "castings" - which ranks higher?
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.