cuffing
/ˈkʌfɪŋ/
"cuffing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cuffing” is uncommon English (frequency #85,142 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,142
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of cuff
Corpus desk
Index EN-cuffing · cuffing · English
cuffing · rank #85,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,142
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH culex
Nearest frequency peer: culex (+2 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cuffing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- croaker
croaker
14,863 corpus weight
- crosser
crosser
14,862 corpus weight
- cuffing
cuffing
14,859 corpus weight
- culex
culex
14,857 corpus weight
- cultist
cultist
14,856 corpus weight
- cyclamen
cyclamen
14,855 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cuffing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuffing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʌfɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuffing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cuffing is uncommon English at frequency #85,142 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkʌfɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of cuff".
cuffing has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cuffing, spelled C-U-F-F-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of cuff
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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