cultural
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/
"cultural" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cultural” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,819
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to culture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cultural · cultural · English
cultural · rank #1,819 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH criminal
Nearest frequency peer: criminal (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cultural”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- conversation
conversation
98,185 corpus weight
- corner
corner
98,184 corpus weight
- criminal
criminal
98,183 corpus weight
- cultural
cultural
98,182 corpus weight
- develop
develop
98,181 corpus weight
- driver
driver
98,180 corpus weight
What this shows “cultural” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cultural |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cultural”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cultural (IPA /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,819 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cultural, with forms such as "ccultural", "clutural", and "culltural". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "cultured", "culturally", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From culture + -al. The correct English form is cultural, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to culture.
- 2Due to human activity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cultural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.
Etymology
From culture + -al.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccultural
- clutural
- culltural
- cultrual
- culttural
- cultuarl
- culturall
- culturla
- culturral
- culutral
- cutlural
- ucltural
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cultural - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).