poser culotte
The verdict
“poser culotte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S'accroupir pour faire ses besoins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poser-culotte · poser culotte · French
poser culotte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poser culotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poser culotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poser culotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S'accroupir pour faire ses besoins.".
poser culotte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poser culotte, spelled P-O-S-E-R- -C-U-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1S'accroupir pour faire ses besoins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poser culotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout on enfonce jusqu'à la cheville dans une terre grasse comme du mastic, qui colle aux pieds et retient la chaussure. Aucune commodité. Il faut faire trente mètres dans la boue collante ci-dessus décrite pour poser culotte.
« J’ai eu la cholérine comme tout le monde, dit l’homme. On pose culotte deux ou trois fois au lieu d’une : un point c’est tout. »
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.