culpabilisant

adj

The verdict

“culpabilisant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,197
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui culpabilise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culpabilisant · culpabilisant · French

culpabilisant · rank #79,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,197
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH culbuter

Nearest frequency peer: culbuter (-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 « culpabilisant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « culpabilisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for culpabilisant
PropertyValue
Headwordculpabilisant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters13
Frequency rank#79,197
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « culpabilisant » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).culpabilisanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « culbuter » (#79,196), « cuma » (#79,198), « cumulatifs » (#79,199). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culpabilisant » est au #79,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

culpabilisant is uncommon French at frequency #79,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui culpabilise.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for culpabilisant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is culpabilisant, spelled C-U-L-P-A-B-I-L-I-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui culpabilise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how culpabilisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'attitude culpabilisante d'une certaine intelligentsia «accommodante» n'est d'ailleurs pas étrangère à ce phénomène inquiétant.
  2. « Ces troubles nous détruisent le moral, la santé et, désormais, le porte-monnaie. C’est d’autant plus culpabilisant. Et quand on culpabilise, on re-craque », déplore-t-il.

Synonyms

Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culpabilisant"?
"culpabilisant" is spelled C-U-L-P-A-B-I-L-I-S-A-N-T.
What does "culpabilisant" mean?
As an adjective, "culpabilisant" means: Qui culpabilise.
What language does "culpabilisant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "culpabilisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list