culturelle

\kyl.ty.ʁɛl\

/\kyl.ty.ʁɛl\/ adj

The verdict

“culturelle” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,132
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de culturel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-culturelle · culturelle · French

culturelle · rank #3,132 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,132
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH culte

Nearest frequency peer: culte (-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 « culturelle »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « culturelle » 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).

culturelle vs culturels
80% similar
culturelle vs culturelles
91% similar
culturelle vs culturel
80% similar

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

Key facts for culturelle
PropertyValue
Headwordculturelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kyl.ty.ʁɛl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,132
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « culturelle »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).culturellese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « culte » (#3,131), « difficiles » (#3,133), « couvert » (#3,130). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « culturelle » est au #3,132. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around culturelle (IPA \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,132 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de culturel.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for culturelle, with forms such as "cculturelle", "cluturelle", and "cullturelle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "culturels", "culturelles", "culturel", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is culturelle, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de culturel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. L’Église catholique, qui a centré sa revitalisation du XVIIe siècle sur la spiritualité, n’échappe pas à cette contrainte culturelle.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cculturelle
  • cluturelle
  • cullturelle
  • cultruelle
  • cultturelle
  • cultuerlle
  • culturele
  • culturelel
  • culturlele
  • culturrelle
  • culutrelle
  • cutlurelle
  • uclturelle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of culturelle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cculturelle1cluturelle2cullturelle1cultruelle2cultturelle1cultuerlle2culturele1culturelel2
Edit distance from "culturelle"

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 "culturelle"?
"culturelle" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyl.ty.ʁɛl\.
What does "culturelle" mean?
As an adjective, "culturelle" means: Féminin singulier de culturel.
What words are commonly confused with "culturelle"?
"culturelle" is commonly confused with "culturels", "culturelles", "culturel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "culturelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culturelle" 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 "culturelle" come from?
"culturelle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list