culturel

/\kyl.ty.ʁɛl\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,768

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

culturel is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à la culture. Pronounced \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\. It ranks #2,768 in French word frequency. Often confused with cultures and culturels.

Key facts for culturel
PropertyValue
Headwordculturel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kyl.ty.ʁɛl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,768
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for culturel is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,768 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for culturel, with forms such as "cculturel", "cluturel", and "cullturel". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cultures", "culturels", "culturelle", 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 culturel, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la culture.
  2. 2
    Relatif à l’industrie du même nom.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cculturel,cluturel,cullturel,cultruel,cultturel,cultuerl,culturell,culturle,culturrel,culutrel,cutlurel,uclturel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for culturel

Misspelling Variants of "culturel"

cculturel9cluturel8cullturel9cultruel8cultturel9cultuerl8culturell9culturle8
Misspelling Variants of "culturel"

Frequency rank: #2,768 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culturel"?
"culturel" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\.
What does "culturel" mean?
As an adj, "culturel" means: Relatif à la culture.
What words are commonly confused with "culturel"?
"culturel" is commonly confused with "cultures", "culturels", "culturelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culturel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culturel" is \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "culturel" come from?
"culturel" 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.