cule
\kyl\
The verdict
“cule” is uncommon French (frequency #87,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,507
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cule · cule · French
cule · rank #87,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,507
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuando
Nearest frequency peer: cuando (-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 « cule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- créditeur
créditeur
12,496 corpus weight
- cuando
cuando
12,495 corpus weight
- cule
cule
12,494 corpus weight
- cumulait
cumulait
12,493 corpus weight
- Cunégonde
Cunégonde
12,492 corpus weight
- curateurs
curateurs
12,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kyl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cule is uncommon French at frequency #87,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
cule has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cule, spelled C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de culer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de culer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de culer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de culer.
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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