Which to use
“cul” and “culs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #999
- “cul” frequency rank
- #12,545
- “culs” frequency rank
- 13544
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cul | culs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Derrière d’un animal, d’un humain, ses fesses, son postérieur. | Pluriel de cul. |
Same sound, different letters: cul vs culs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.
Homophone desk: cul vs culs
This is the hard kind. cul and culs are pronounced identically (\ky\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “cul” sits inside “culs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13544, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cul is recorded at frequency rank #999, classified as anoun, pronounced \ky\. culs is at rank #12,545, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ky\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 13544, this pair ranks #400,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cul vs culs
Shared letters: clu. Private to "cul": -. Private to "culs": s.
"cul" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "culs" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- culs ← cculs · clus · culls · culss · cusl · ucls
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "cul" and "culs" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "cul" or "culs" show up more?
What to do next
"cul" and "culs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "cul" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "culs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cul" and "culs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "culs vs ky". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #400,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.