culte

\kylt\

/\kylt\/ adj

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The verdict

“culte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,131
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire

Corpus desk

Index FR-culte · culte · French

culte · rank #3,131 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,131
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH couvert

Nearest frequency peer: couvert (-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 « culte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

culte vs cut
60% similar
culte vs cure
60% similar
culte vs cuve
60% similar

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

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culte »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cultese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « couvert » (#3,130), « culturelle » (#3,132), « difficiles » (#3,133). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culte » est au #3,131. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around culte (IPA \kylt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a, ou a eu, un grand succès auprès d’un certain public et est devenu presque légendaire".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for culte, with forms such as "cculte", "clute", and "culet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cure", "cuve", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is culte, spelled C-U-L-T-E.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. [Titre] Les secrets de fabrication de la série culte « Le Bureau des légendes »
  2. En fin de compte, qu’est-ce qu’un film « culte », sinon un film décrété tel par quelques apôtres de la branchitude ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cculte
  • clute
  • culet
  • cullte
  • cultte
  • cutle
  • uclte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cculte1clute2culet2cullte1cultte1cutle2uclte2
Edit distance from "culte"

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 "culte"?
"culte" is spelled C-U-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kylt\.
What does "culte" mean?
As an adjective, "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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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

digne#3,134dépôt#3,136voler#3,115virus#3,114

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

appels7 variantsaccusé7 variantspitié7 variantsrappel7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list