cultual
[kul̪ˈt̪wal]
The verdict
“cultual” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relacionado con el culto religioso o perteneciente a él.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cultual · cultual · Spanish
cultual · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cultual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kul̪ˈt̪wal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cultual” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cultual is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kul̪ˈt̪wal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relacionado con el culto religioso o perteneciente a él.".
cultual doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cultual, spelled C-U-L-T-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relacionado con el culto religioso o perteneciente a él.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cultual appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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