culs
\ky\
The verdict
“culs” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,545
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-culs · culs · French
culs · rank #12,545 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,545
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruauté
Nearest frequency peer: cruauté (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « culs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contradicti…
contradictions
87,459 corpus weight
- croisement
croisement
87,458 corpus weight
- cruauté
cruauté
87,457 corpus weight
- culs
culs
87,456 corpus weight
- cumul
cumul
87,455 corpus weight
- Cyrus
Cyrus
87,454 corpus weight
What this shows « culs » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around culs (IPA \ky\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,545 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cul.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for culs, with forms such as "cculs", "clus", and "culls". 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, "cup", "cut", "cum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is culs, spelled C-U-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cul.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cculs
- clus
- culls
- culss
- cusl
- ucls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).