culées
\ky.le\
The verdict
“culées” is uncommon French (frequency #80,098 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,098
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de culée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culees · culées · French
culées · rank #80,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivable
Nearest frequency peer: cultivable (-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 « culées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Croy
Croy
19,906 corpus weight
- cuisinait
cuisinait
19,905 corpus weight
- cultivable
cultivable
19,904 corpus weight
- culées
culées
19,903 corpus weight
- cumming
cumming
19,902 corpus weight
- cuneo
cuneo
19,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culées is uncommon French at frequency #80,098 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de culée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for culées, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is culées, spelled C-U-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de culée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how culées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant le décours de la lune, les bûcherons s’occupent à déhoupper les arbres, à faire des bourrées, scier les tiges dans les longueurs qu’on les veut, former leurs chantiers de bois de chauffage, et fendre les culées ; en même temps, les scieurs de long et les charpentiers débitent les pièces ainsi coupées et préparées par les bûcherons.
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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