clearcutting

noun

"clearcutting" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“clearcutting” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.

Corpus desk

Index EN-clearcutting · clearcutting · English

clearcutting · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for clearcutting
PropertyValue
Headwordclearcutting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “clearcutting” in English

clearcuttingranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

clearcutting is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for clearcutting in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From clear + cutting. The correct English form is clearcutting, spelled C-L-E-A-R-C-U-T-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.

Etymology

From clear + cutting.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clearcutting"?
"clearcutting" is spelled C-L-E-A-R-C-U-T-T-I-N-G.
What does "clearcutting" mean?
As a noun, "clearcutting" means: A forestry practice in which most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down.
What is the origin of the word "clearcutting"?
From clear + cutting. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list