culière
\ky.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“culière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sangle de cuir au derrière d’un cheval pour maintenir le harnais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culiere · culière · French
culière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « culière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
culière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for culière, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is culière, spelled C-U-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sangle de cuir au derrière d’un cheval pour maintenir le harnais.
- 2Pierre creuse qui reçoit la chute des eaux d’un tuyau de descente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how culière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il trouva un Turc qui estoit monté sur le cheval Monseigneur Gauchier de Chasteillon, et estoit la culiere toute sanglante du cheval.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.