cul à cul
\ky a ky\
The verdict
“cul à cul” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dos contre dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cul-a-cul · cul à cul · French
cul à cul · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | cul à cul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ky a ky\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cul à cul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cul à cul is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ky a ky\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dos contre dos.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cul à cul in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 French form is cul à cul, spelled C-U-L- -À- -C-U-L.
Definition
- 1Dos contre dos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cul à cul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hacine se gara en marche arrière, cul à cul et ouvrit le hayon.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.