cultuel
\kyl.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“cultuel” is uncommon French (frequency #65,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,833
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a trait au culte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cultuel · cultuel · French
cultuel · rank #65,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,833
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuissons
Nearest frequency peer: cuissons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cultuel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cruautés
cruautés
34,171 corpus weight
- cuis
cuis
34,170 corpus weight
- cuissons
cuissons
34,169 corpus weight
- cultuel
cultuel
34,168 corpus weight
- cuni
cuni
34,167 corpus weight
- cunéiforme
cunéiforme
34,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cultuel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cultuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kyl.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cultuel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cultuel is uncommon French at frequency #65,833 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kyl.tɥɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a trait au culte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cultuel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 cultuel, spelled C-U-L-T-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a trait au culte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cultuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effrayé, le voisinage, craignant qu’un meurtre ne soit en train d’être commis dans le lieu cultuel, a immédiatement alerté la maréchaussée.
C’est sous un ancien terrain de football de la commune, qui doit accueillir prochainement un hypermarché, que les chercheurs de l’Inrap ont découvert cet édifice cultuel.
This word in other languages
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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