culinary
/ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/
"culinary" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“culinary” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,695
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culinary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “culinary” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around culinary (IPA /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,695 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for culinary, with forms such as "cculinary", "cluinary", and "cuilnary". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”). The correct English form is culinary, spelled C-U-L-I-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
- 2Of or relating to a kitchen.
Etymology
Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cculinary
- cluinary
- cuilnary
- culianry
- culinarry
- culinaryy
- culinayr
- culinnary
- culinray
- cullinary
- culniary
- uclinary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culinary - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “culinary”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-U-L-I-N-A-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.