cul par-dessus tête
\ky paʁ.də.sy tɛt\
The verdict
“cul par-dessus tête” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En culbutant ; à la renverse ; à l’envers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cul par-dessus tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ky paʁ.də.sy tɛt\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cul par-dessus tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cul par-dessus tête is 19 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky paʁ.də.sy tɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En culbutant ; à la renverse ; à l’envers.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cul par-dessus tête, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cul par-dessus tête, spelled C-U-L- -P-A-R---D-E-S-S-U-S- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1En culbutant ; à la renverse ; à l’envers.
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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.
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Using “cul par-dessus tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-L- -P-A-R---D-E-S-S-U-S- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ky paʁ.də.sy tɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.