cultural

/\kyl.ty.ʁal\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#33,201

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

cultural is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est propre à la culture des terres et des sols, à l’agriculture. Pronounced \kyl.ty.ʁal\. Often confused with culture and culturel.

Key facts for cultural
PropertyValue
Headwordcultural
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kyl.ty.ʁal\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,201
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cultural is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kyl.ty.ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,201 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui est propre à la culture des terres et des sols, à l’agriculture.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cultural, with forms such as "ccultural", "clutural", and "culltural". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "culturel", "cultures", 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 cultural, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est propre à la culture des terres et des sols, à l’agriculture.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccultural,clutural,culltural,cultrual,culttural,cultuarl,culturall,culturla,culturral,culutral,cutlural,ucltural

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cultural

Misspelling Variants of "cultural"

ccultural9clutural8culltural9cultrual8culttural9cultuarl8culturall9culturla8
Misspelling Variants of "cultural"

Frequency rank: #33,201 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cultural"?
"cultural" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.ty.ʁal\.
What does "cultural" mean?
As an adj, "cultural" means: Qui est propre à la culture des terres et des sols, à l’agriculture.
What words are commonly confused with "cultural"?
"cultural" is commonly confused with "culture", "culturel", "cultures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cultural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cultural" is \kyl.ty.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cultural" come from?
"cultural" 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.