culot
\ky.lo\
The verdict
“culot” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #14,901 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #14,901
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce qui est au bas, ce qui reste au fond d’une chose.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “culot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for culot is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,901 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for culot, with forms such as "cculot", "cluot", and "cullot". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "culs", "culte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is culot, spelled C-U-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est au bas, ce qui reste au fond d’une chose.
- 2La matière ayant sédimenté lors d’une centrifugation.
- 3Partie métallique qui reste au fond d’un creuset après la fusion et qui s’est séparée des scories.
- 4Résidu épais et noirâtre qui se forme et s’amasse dans le foyer d’une pipe, lorsqu’elle sert longtemps.
- 5Petit plateau cylindrique de terre cuite, sur lequel on pose le creuset dans le fourneau pour le garantir de l’action trop vive du feu.
- 6Le dernier-né d’une couvée, d’une portée.
- 7Élément d’architecture d’un objet cylindrique (bouteille, balle d’arme à feu).
- 8Partie inférieure d’une lampe d’église.
- 9Base d’une ampoule électrique servant à la liaison avec la douille.
- 10Partie la plus basse d'un bénitier portatif.
- 11Audace. → voir avoir du culot.
- 12Effronterie.
- 13Le plus petit en taille de la promotion.
- 14Support sur lequel les miroitiers posaient le récipient contenant le mercure.
- 15Partie inférieure de la douille d'une cartouche.
- 16Sur une colonne corinthienne, ornement d'où partent les rinceaux du feuillage.
- 17Entonnoir servant à la fabrication des bougies d'éclairage.
- 18Nom donné à de la lave solidifiée qui obstrue un cratère de volcan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cculot,cluot,cullot,culott,culto,cuolt,uclot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “culot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-L-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ky.lo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cut” - see the side-by-side comparison. culot vs cut
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.