culot
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,901
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
culot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est au bas, ce qui reste au fond d’une chose. Pronounced \ky.lo\. Often confused with cut and culs.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for culot is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for culot, with forms such as "cculot", "cluot", and "cullot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is culot, spelled C-U-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cculot,cluot,cullot,culott,culto,cuolt,uclot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for culot
Misspelling Variants of "culot"
Frequency rank: #14,901 in French
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