Cully
\ky.li\
The verdict
“Cully” is uncommon French (frequency #97,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,831
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - \ky.ji\ Ancienne commune, inclue depuis 2011 dans la commune de Bourg-en-Lavaux dans le canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cully · Cully · French
Cully · rank #97,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,831
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crépusculaires
Nearest frequency peer: crépusculaires (-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 « Cully »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cruas
Cruas
2,174 corpus weight
- crédence
crédence
2,173 corpus weight
- crénelées
crénelées
2,172 corpus weight
- crépusculai…
crépusculaires
2,171 corpus weight
- Cully
Cully
2,170 corpus weight
- custos
custos
2,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cully » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cully |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ky.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cully » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cully is uncommon French at frequency #97,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ky.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cully in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Cully, spelled C-U-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1\ky.ji\ Ancienne commune, inclue depuis 2011 dans la commune de Bourg-en-Lavaux dans le canton de Vaud en Suisse.
- 2\ky.li\ Village et commune française, située dans le département du Calvados intégrée à la commune de Moulins en Bessin en janvier 2017.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cully appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je viens de Cully.
Je me rends à Cully.
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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