cussed
/kʌst/
"cussed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cussed” is uncommon English (frequency #61,398 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,398
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cuss
Corpus desk
Index EN-cussed · cussed · English
cussed · rank #61,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crosstalk
Nearest frequency peer: crosstalk (-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 “cussed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Crayola
Crayola
38,609 corpus weight
- crevasse
crevasse
38,608 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
38,607 corpus weight
- crosstalk
crosstalk
38,606 corpus weight
- cussed
cussed
38,603 corpus weight
- DBT
DBT
38,598 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cussed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cussed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kʌst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cussed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cussed is uncommon English at frequency #61,398 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kʌst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of cuss".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cussed in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cussed, spelled C-U-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cuss
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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