culpabilité

Name: culpabilité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kyl.pa.bi.li.te\

/\kyl.pa.bi.li.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“culpabilité” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,173
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 17
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui ou de celle qui est coupable ou réputé coupable d’un crime, d’un délit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culpabilite · culpabilité · French

culpabilité · rank #7,173 · 17 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #7,173
LEN-MEGA 11 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-HIGH 17 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH dangers

Nearest frequency peer: dangers (+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.

coupables

92,832
Cousine

92,831
croyance

92,830
culpabilité

92,828
dangers

92,827
dominante

92,826

What this shows « culpabilité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

culpabilité vs culpabilise

82% similar

culpabilité vs culpabiliser

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for culpabilité
Property	Value
Headword	culpabilité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kyl.pa.bi.li.te\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#7,173
Misspellings tracked	17
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culpabilité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).culpabilitése place ici:

#7,173

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dangers » (#7,174), « croyance » (#7,171), « dominante » (#7,175). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culpabilité » est au #7,173. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around culpabilité (IPA \kyl.pa.bi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,173 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for culpabilité, with forms such as "cculpabilité", "clupabilité", and "culapbilité". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "culpabilise", "culpabiliser", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is culpabilité, spelled C-U-L-P-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.

Definition

1
État de celui ou de celle qui est coupable ou réputé coupable d’un crime, d’un délit.
2
Sentiment de se sentir coupable, d’avoir commis une faute, vis-à-vis d’une situation, de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Le nouveau ministre de la Guerre, M. Cavaignac, proclama à la tribune, en un discours retentissant dont la Chambre ordonna l’affichage, la culpabilité de Dreyfus.
Par peur d’affronter la culpabilité qui résulte d’une vie inaccomplie, nous nous cherchons des actes et des pensées de moindre importance que nous ruminons sans relâche.

Antonyms

innocence

This word in other languages

guilt(English)culpa(Español)Schuld(Deutsch)culpa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

cculpabilité
clupabilité
culapbilité
cullpabilité
culpabbilité
culpabiilté
culpabilite
culpabilitté
culpabiliét
culpabillité
culpabiltié
culpabliité
culpaiblité
culpbailité
culppabilité
cuplabilité
uclpabilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culpabilité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "culpabilité"

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 "culpabilité"?

"culpabilité" is spelled C-U-L-P-A-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.pa.bi.li.te\.

What does "culpabilité" mean?

As a noun, "culpabilité" means: État de celui ou de celle qui est coupable ou réputé coupable d’un crime, d’un délit.

What words are commonly confused with "culpabilité"?

"culpabilité" is commonly confused with "culpabilise", "culpabiliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "culpabilité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culpabilité" is \kyl.pa.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "culpabilité" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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