culls
/kʌlz/
"culls" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“culls” is uncommon English (frequency #74,867 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,867
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cull
Corpus desk
Index EN-culls · culls · English
culls · rank #74,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,867
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cullman
Nearest frequency peer: Cullman (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “culls”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- CSIR
CSIR
25,138 corpus weight
- cuatro
cuatro
25,136 corpus weight
- Cullman
Cullman
25,135 corpus weight
- culls
culls
25,134 corpus weight
- cusps
cusps
25,132 corpus weight
- dalles
dalles
25,128 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “culls” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culls |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “culls” in English
Rare enough to double-check
culls is uncommon English at frequency #74,867 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʌlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cull".
Zero misspellings are on record for culls in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is culls, spelled C-U-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cull
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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