cuckoo clock
"cuckoo-clock" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cuckoo clock” 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 May 6, 2026) - A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cuckoo-clock · cuckoo clock · English
cuckoo clock · 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
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | cuckoo clock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuckoo clock” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cuckoo clock is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cuckoo clock in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cuckoo clock, spelled C-U-C-K-O-O- -C-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
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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.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.