culottes
/kjuːˈlɒts/
"culottes" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“culottes” is uncommon English (frequency #78,500 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,500
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-culottes · culottes · English
culottes · rank #78,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,500
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Curaçao
Nearest frequency peer: Curaçao (+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 “culottes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cran
cran
21,505 corpus weight
- crestfallen
crestfallen
21,504 corpus weight
- culottes
culottes
21,501 corpus weight
- Curaçao
Curaçao
21,500 corpus weight
- curtly
curtly
21,499 corpus weight
- cyc
cyc
21,498 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “culottes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culottes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kjuːˈlɒts/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “culottes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
culottes is uncommon English at frequency #78,500 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kjuːˈlɒts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.".
Zero misspellings are on record for culottes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French culottes f pl. The correct English form is culottes, spelled C-U-L-O-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
Etymology
Borrowed from French culottes f pl.
This word in other languages
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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