cul béni
\ky beni\
The verdict
“cul béni” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne très dévote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cul-beni · cul béni · French
cul béni · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 béni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky beni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cul béni » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cul béni is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky beni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne très dévote.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cul béni in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cul béni, spelled C-U-L- -B-É-N-I.
Definition
- 1Personne très dévote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cul béni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pardonnez-lui, il va tailler un costard aux culs-bénis. Meurtrir le cou des vieilles litanies sous la pression d’une corde qui serre. Il va jeter des soutanes pleines de rats dans les vasières.
Jusqu’à l’âge de douze ans, il fut élevé par sa tante « cul béni », qui le traînait à la messe le dimanche et exigeait une prière chaque soir avant le coucher.
This word in other languages
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.