casted

Casted is a past tense and past participle form that appears in some English varieties but is generally considered nonstandard. The standard past tense and past participle of the verb cast is cast, used for all persons (for example, “She cast a spell yesterday” or “The bronze was cast in a mold”). The form casted is most often found in dialectal speech, older texts, or as a learner error; it is not accepted in formal writing in modern English.

In everyday usage, cast is used for both the simple past and the participle: “The director cast the actor” and “The actor was cast in the part.” The noun cast refers to the group of performers, and casting is the process of selecting performers or, in metalworking, shaping material through molds. The form casted is sometimes produced by analogy with regular verbs or as a mistaken extension of regular past tense, but it should be avoided in standard English.

In programming and technical writing, cast is the preferred term for type conversion (e.g., “cast to int”). The word casted appears only in nonstandard usage or informal notes, and most style guides discourage its use in technical contexts as well.

Etymology: cast comes from Old English and other Germanic roots; the appearance of the -ed form reflects regularization patterns in English but is not the correct past tense for this verb in contemporary standard usage.

See also: cast, casting (theater), casting (metallurgy).