culture

\kyl.tyʁ\

/\kyl.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“culture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#551
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de cultiver la terre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culture · culture · French

culture · rank #551 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #551
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH club

Nearest frequency peer: club (-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 « culture »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « culture » 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).

culture vs culturel
88% similar
culture vs cultures
88% similar
culture vs culturels
78% similar

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

Key facts for culture
PropertyValue
Headwordculture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kyl.tyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#551
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culture »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « club » (#550), « cœur » (#552), « action » (#549). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culture » est au #551. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around culture (IPA \kyl.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #551 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for culture, with forms such as "cculture", "cluture", and "cullture". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "culturel", "cultures", "culturels", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is culture, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de cultiver la terre.
  2. 2
    Action de cultiver la terre.
  3. 3
    Action de cultiver la terre.
  4. 4
    Élevage et développement de cellules d’origine végétales, bactériennes ou animales.
  5. 5
    Élevage et développement de cellules d’origine végétales, bactériennes ou animales.
  6. 6
    Action de se cultiver, application que l’on met à perfectionner les sciences, les arts, à développer les facultés humaines.
  7. 7
    Action de se cultiver, application que l’on met à perfectionner les sciences, les arts, à développer les facultés humaines.
  8. 8
    Action de se cultiver, application que l’on met à perfectionner les sciences, les arts, à développer les facultés humaines.
  9. 9
    Action de se cultiver, application que l’on met à perfectionner les sciences, les arts, à développer les facultés humaines.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En comparant ce tableau avec celui fourni par le cadastre de 1810 que nous donnons ci-dessous, on est frappé des immenses changements survenus dans l’état de la culture du terroir de Laon depuis moins d’un demi-siècle.
  2. Quelle hérésie ! Jacques Bonhomme, trahir la cause du sol, abandonner la culture du blé parce que peu rémunératrice.

Synonyms

agriculturecivilisation

Antonyms

fricheinculturejachèrenature

This word in other languages

cultivation(English)cultivo(Español)Anbau(Deutsch)cultura(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cculture
  • cluture
  • cullture
  • cultrue
  • cultture
  • cultuer
  • culturre
  • culutre
  • cutlure
  • uclture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culture - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cculture1cluture2cullture1cultrue2cultture1cultuer2culturre1culutre2
Edit distance from "culture"

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 "culture"?
"culture" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.tyʁ\.
What does "culture" mean?
As a noun, "culture" means: Action de cultiver la terre.
What words are commonly confused with "culture"?
"culture" is commonly confused with "culturel", "cultures", "culturels". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culture" is \kyl.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culture" come from?
"culture" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

janvier#543produit#559voiture#537doivent#566

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

malgré10 variantsderrière10 variantsnouveaux10 variantsenviron10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list