culbute
\kyl.byt\
The verdict
“culbute” is uncommon French (frequency #59,205 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,205
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour qu’on fait en mettant la tête en bas et les jambes en haut, pour retomber de l’autre côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culbute · culbute · French
culbute · rank #59,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,205
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuillerées
Nearest frequency peer: cuillerées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « culbute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cronenberg
Cronenberg
40,800 corpus weight
- croyions
croyions
40,799 corpus weight
- cuillerées
cuillerées
40,797 corpus weight
- culbute
culbute
40,796 corpus weight
- cupides
cupides
40,795 corpus weight
- césium
césium
40,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culbute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culbute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kyl.byt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culbute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culbute is uncommon French at frequency #59,205 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kyl.byt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for culbute in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 culbute, spelled C-U-L-B-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tour qu’on fait en mettant la tête en bas et les jambes en haut, pour retomber de l’autre côté.
- 2Retournement d’un objet sur lui-même.
- 3Chute.
- 4Virage effectué en compétition, correspondant à une rotation du corps et à un appui des pieds contre le mur du bassin.
- 5Caleçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how culbute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La couleur, la forme, étaient d’un végétal ; mais d’un autre côté ces corps se déplaçaient tantôt en rampant avec une extrême lenteur, tantôt en exécutant des espèces de culbute à la façon des saltimbanques.
Et ce fut sans plus tarder, parmi la paille, préparée d’avance bien sûr, la culbute amoureuse, l’éclair des cuisses sans pantalon, l’étreinte farouche et brutale.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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