curtailment
/kɚˈteɪlmənt/
"curtailment" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“curtailment” is uncommon English (frequency #72,219 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,219
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of curtailing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-curtailment · curtailment · English
curtailment · rank #72,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,219
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cuenca
Nearest frequency peer: Cuenca (-3 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “curtailment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crunk
crunk
27,789 corpus weight
- Cuellar
Cuellar
27,786 corpus weight
- Cuenca
Cuenca
27,785 corpus weight
- curtailment
curtailment
27,782 corpus weight
- deanery
deanery
27,779 corpus weight
- declassify
declassify
27,776 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “curtailment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curtailment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɚˈteɪlmənt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “curtailment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
curtailment is uncommon English at frequency #72,219 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɚˈteɪlmənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of curtailing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for curtailment in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From curtail + -ment. The correct English form is curtailment, spelled C-U-R-T-A-I-L-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of curtailing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curtailment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The railways are fully alive to the position, and are sparing neither effort nor expense to provide more attractive trains and to effect economies, but in such circumstances some curtailment of services is inevitable.
Curtailment was said to be imminent of services on the ex-Caledonian Glasgow-Carlisle main line via Carstairs, also between Glasgow and Lanark and on other ex-C.R. lines in the Glasgow area.
Etymology
From curtail + -ment.
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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