culer
French, verb/ky.le/
culer is a French verb meaning “to go astern, to back up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller en arrière, ou reculer”.
What does culer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go astern, to back up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller en arrière, ou reculer. 2. Toucher le fond, en parlant de la quille d’un bateau.
verb: 1. Enculer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of culer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- culant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- culé participle past
- cule first-person indicative present
- cules indicative present second-person
- culons first-person indicative plural
- culez indicative plural present
- culent indicative plural present
- culais first-person imperfect indicative
- culait imperfect indicative singular
- culions first-person imperfect indicative
- culiez imperfect indicative plural
- culaient imperfect indicative plural
- culai first-person historic indicative
- culas historic indicative past
- cula historic indicative past
- culâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culer?
- /ky.le/
- \ky.le\
- [ky.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is culer in French?
culer appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).