cultes
\kylt\
The verdict
“cultes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,480
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de culte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cultes · cultes · French
cultes · rank #10,480 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,480
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craintes
Nearest frequency peer: craintes (-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 « cultes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couvertures
couvertures
89,524 corpus weight
- cracher
cracher
89,523 corpus weight
- craintes
craintes
89,522 corpus weight
- cultes
cultes
89,521 corpus weight
- cylindres
cylindres
89,520 corpus weight
- daily
daily
89,519 corpus weight
What this shows « cultes » 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 | cultes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kylt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cultes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cultes (IPA \kylt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de culte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cultes, with forms such as "ccultes", "clutes", and "culets". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cute", "cuves", "cures", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cultes, spelled C-U-L-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de culte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cultes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La députation demanda la liberté des cultes et la conservation des églises et des biens de fondation : non, tout sera théophilanthropisé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccultes
- clutes
- culets
- culltes
- cultess
- cultse
- culttes
- cutles
- ucltes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cultes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cultes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).