culottes
/kjuːˈlɒts/
"culottes" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“culottes” is uncommon English (frequency #78,500 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,500
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
| 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) |
Where “culottes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
culottes is uncommon English at frequency #78,500 among 43,570 “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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Using “culottes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-U-L-O-T-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.