culasse

\ky.las\

/\ky.las\/ noun

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The verdict

“culasse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,364
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de derrière d’une arme à feu, canon, fusil, revolver, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culasse · culasse · French

culasse · rank #32,364 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,364
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ctrl

Nearest frequency peer: Ctrl (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « culasse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « culasse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

culasse vs casse
71% similar
culasse vs class
71% similar
culasse vs classe
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for culasse
PropertyValue
Headwordculasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ky.las\
Letters7
Frequency rank#32,364
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culasse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.culassese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Ctrl » (#32,363), « curriculum » (#32,365), « CX » (#32,366). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culasse » est au #32,364. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around culasse (IPA \ky.las\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,364 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for culasse, with forms such as "cculasse", "cluasse", and "cualsse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "casse", "class", "classe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 culasse, spelled C-U-L-A-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie de derrière d’une arme à feu, canon, fusil, revolver, etc.
  2. 2
    Partie arrière d’une pièce de métal.
  3. 3
    Partie de la racine d’un arbre qui vient après le collet.
  4. 4
    Dessous d’un brillant.
  5. 5
    Partie amovible d'un moteur assurant l'étanchéité d'un ou plusieurs de ses cylindres.
  6. 6
    Unité de masse représentant un sac ou poche de 100 kilogrammes de farine.
  7. 7
    Postérieur d’une femme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how culasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette arme était une longue et lourde carabine qui avait sans doute appartenu à quelque contrebandier ; à l’épaisseur de la crosse et à la culasse puissante du canon, on reconnaissait un ancien fusil à pierre qu’un armurier du pays avait transformé en fusil à piston.
  2. Tous ceux qui n’avaient pas de bidons, de troisième cartouchière, de vis de culasse, en découvrent soudain un choix près d’eux […].

Synonyms

tête de moteur

This word in other languages

breech(English)culata(Español)culatra(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cculasse
  • cluasse
  • cualsse
  • culase
  • culases
  • cullasse
  • culsase
  • uclasse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culasse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cculasse1cluasse2cualsse2culase1culases2cullasse1culsase2uclasse2
Edit distance from "culasse"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culasse"?
"culasse" is spelled C-U-L-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ky.las\.
What does "culasse" mean?
As a noun, "culasse" means: Partie de derrière d’une arme à feu, canon, fusil, revolver, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "culasse"?
"culasse" is commonly confused with "casse", "class", "classe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culasse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culasse" is \ky.las\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culasse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "culasse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list