# cooled vs culled

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### cooled
*adjective · IPA /kuːld/ · frequency rank #12,213*
Brought to a lower temperature.

### culled
*verb · IPA /kʌld/ · frequency rank #34,848*
simple past and past participle of cull

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooled-vs-culled