sur le cul

/\syʁ lə ky\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sur le cul is anFrenchadj. It means: Assis par terre, après une chute. Pronounced \syʁ lə ky\.

Key facts for sur le cul
PropertyValue
Headwordsur le cul
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\syʁ lə ky\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sur le cul is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sur le cul is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ lə ky\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sur le cul in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 sur le cul, spelled S-U-R- -L-E- -C-U-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assis par terre, après une chute.
  2. 2
    Étonné ; surpris ; bouche bée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sur le cul"?
"sur le cul" is spelled S-U-R- -L-E- -C-U-L. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ lə ky\.
What does "sur le cul" mean?
As an adj, "sur le cul" means: Assis par terre, après une chute.
How do you pronounce "sur le cul"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sur le cul" is \syʁ lə ky\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sur le cul" come from?
"sur le cul" 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.