cud
/kʌd/
"cud" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cud” is uncommon English (frequency #59,312 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,312
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cud |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cud” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cud is uncommon English at frequency #59,312 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʌd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cud in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”). The correct English form is cud, spelled C-U-D.
Definition
- 1The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
Etymology
From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cud”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.