culte

/\kylt\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,131

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

culte is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire Pronounced \kylt\. It ranks #3,131 in French word frequency. Often confused with cut and cure.

Key facts for culte
PropertyValue
Headwordculte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kylt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,131
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of culte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for culte is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kylt\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,131 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for culte, with forms such as "cculte", "clute", and "culet". 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", "cure", "cuve", 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 culte, spelled C-U-L-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cculte,clute,culet,cullte,cultte,cutle,uclte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for culte

Misspelling Variants of "culte"

cculte6clute5culet5cullte6cultte6cutle5uclte5
Misspelling Variants of "culte"

Frequency rank: #3,131 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culte"?
"culte" is spelled C-U-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kylt\.
What does "culte" mean?
As an adj, "culte" means: Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire
What words are commonly confused with "culte"?
"culte" is commonly confused with "cut", "cure", "cuve". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culte" is \kylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culte" come from?
"culte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.