# cunt

> English word · Noun · IPA /kʌnt/ · frequency rank #8,654

## Definitions
1. The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
2. An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
3. An objectionable object or item.
4. An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
5. A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
6. A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
7. The anus of a trans woman.
8. The inguinal canals of a trans woman.

## Etymology
From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).

## Easily confused with
- **cut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cut)
- **cup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cup)
- **cuz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cuz)
- **cur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cur)
- **cute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cute)
- **cuts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cuts)
- **cure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cure)
- **cups** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cups)
- **curb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-curb)
- **curl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-curl)
- **curt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-curt)
- **cyst** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cyst)
- **cusp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cusp)
- **curd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-curd)
- **cuss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cuss)
- **cuny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cuny)
- **cunts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunt-vs-cunts)
- **CT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ct-vs-cunt)
- **CU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cu-vs-cunt)
- **can** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/can-vs-cunt)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ccunt`, `cnut`, `cunnt`, `cuntt`, `cutn`, `ucnt`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cunt