cuculle
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
cuculle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement ample avec capuchon, aujourd’hui appelé coule, porté par les moines anciens au-dessus de la tunique. Pronounced \ky.kyl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuculle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.kyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuculle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.kyl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cuculle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is cuculle, spelled C-U-C-U-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement ample avec capuchon, aujourd’hui appelé coule, porté par les moines anciens au-dessus de la tunique.
- 2Scapulaire avec capuchon et bandes latérales, propre aux membres de l’ordre des chartreux.
- 3Coiffure en forme de calotte pointue couverte d’un voile et surmontée d’une croix utilisée notamment par les religieux orthodoxes.
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