Which to use
“cultural” is an adjective and “culturally” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,819
- “cultural” frequency rank
- #12,218
- “culturally” frequency rank
- 14037
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cultural | culturally |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pertaining to culture. | In a cultural way. |
Letter map: cultural vs culturally
Shared letters muted; letters that set cultural and culturally apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. cultural runs 8 letters (CVCCVCVC) against culturally's 10 (CVCCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - cultural and culturally
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cultural is anadjective and culturallyanadverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “cultural” sits inside “culturally”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14037, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cultural is recorded at frequency rank #1,819, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/. culturally is at rank #12,218, tagged as anadv.
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 14037, this pair ranks #472,424 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cultural vs culturally
Shared letters: aclrtu. Private to "cultural": -. Private to "culturally": y.
"cultural" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC · "culturally" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- cultural ← ccultural · clutural · culltural · cultrual · culttural · cultuarl · culturall · culturla
- culturally ← cculturally · cluturally · cullturally · cultrually · cultturally · cultuarlly · culturallyy · culturaly
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cultural" and "culturally" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "cultural" vs "culturally" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pair "cultural" vs "culturally" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "cultural" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "culturally" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #472,424 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cultural" and "culturally" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cultural vs cultured". 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 #472,424 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.