cuff-link
"cuff-link" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cuff-link” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of cufflink.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cuff-link · cuff-link · English
cuff-link · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | cuff-link |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cuff-link” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cuff-link is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of cufflink.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cuff-link, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cuff-link, spelled C-U-F-F---L-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of cufflink.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuff-link appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It's an extremely complex role that Bergman has written for [Elliott] Gould, that of a man who is haunted by the fact that he is his family's only male survivor (his father died in a concentration camp), and who is apparently his sister's protector and lover. But little of this complexity comes through and I, for one, never believed that his archeologist…
Astaire’s widow [Robyn Smith] says she wants to honor his wishes and prevent the trivialization and commercialization of his name and his life’s work. “Can you believe it?” she asks. “Someone sent me a life-sized cut-out of Fred in tails, with holes where the studs and the cuff-links would go. It was going to be a display to sell jewelry.”
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.