cultural

/[kul̪t̪uˈɾal]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#983

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

cultural is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pertenece o concierne a la cultura. Pronounced [kul̪t̪uˈɾal]. It ranks #983 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with culture and culturales.

Key facts for cultural
PropertyValue
Headwordcultural
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[kul̪t̪uˈɾal]
Letters8
Frequency rank#983
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cultural in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cultural is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kul̪t̪uˈɾal]. Corpus data places it at rank #983 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que pertenece o concierne a la cultura.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cultural, with forms such as "ccultural", "clutural", and "culltural". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "culturales", "cultura", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cultural, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que pertenece o concierne a la cultura.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cultural

Misspelling Variants of "cultural"

ccultural9clutural8culltural9cultrual8culttural9cultuarl8culturall9culturla8
Misspelling Variants of "cultural"

Frequency rank: #983 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cultural"?
"cultural" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [kul̪t̪uˈɾal].
What does "cultural" mean?
As an adj, "cultural" means: Que pertenece o concierne a la cultura.
What words are commonly confused with "cultural"?
"cultural" is commonly confused with "culture", "culturales", "cultura". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cultural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cultural" is [kul̪t̪uˈɾal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cultural" come from?
"cultural" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.