cultured
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/
"cultured" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cultured” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,569
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cultured · cultured · English
cultured · rank #19,569 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,569
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cryptocurrency
Nearest frequency peer: cryptocurrency (-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 “cultured”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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80,433 corpus weight
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80,432 corpus weight
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80,430 corpus weight
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What this shows “cultured” 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 | cultured |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cultured”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cultured (IPA /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,569 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 cultured, with forms such as "ccultured", "clutured", and "culltured". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "cultural", "captured", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cultured, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
- 2Artificially developed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cultured appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
cultured students
cultured men
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccultured
- clutured
- culltured
- cultrued
- culttured
- cultuerd
- culturde
- culturedd
- culturred
- culutred
- cutlured
- ucltured
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cultured - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cultured", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).