culot
French, noun/ky.lo/
culot is spelled C-U-L-O-T (5 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written French, the 14,875th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Culot is a French masculine noun meaning “base, bottom (of an object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui est au bas, ce qui reste au fond d’une chose”.
What does culot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebase, bottom (of an object)
- 2
masculineresidue, slag
- 3
colloquialmasculinecheek, nerve (effrontery)
Tu ne manques pas de culot !
- 4
masculinearchitectural ornament, e.g. starting point of volutes
- 5
masculineresidue on the bottom of a smoker's pipe; its darkening by use is called culotter
- 6
masculinethe last-come person, e.g. youngest child, worst loser in a competition
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui est au bas, ce qui reste au fond d’une chose. 2. La matière ayant sédimenté lors d’une centrifugation. 3. Partie métallique qui reste au fond d’un creuset après la fusion et qui s’est séparée des scories. 4. Résidu épais et noirâtre qui se forme et s’amasse dans le foyer d’une pipe, lorsqu’elle sert longtemps.
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 culot
- culots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce culot?
- /ky.lo/
- \ky.lo\
- [ky.lo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to culot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is culot in French?
culot appears 3.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).