cust
"cust" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cust” is uncommon English (frequency #57,318 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,318
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of custody.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cust · cust · English
cust · rank #57,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,318
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cushioning
Nearest frequency peer: cushioning (-1 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 “cust”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cultists
cultists
42,686 corpus weight
- curio
curio
42,685 corpus weight
- cushioning
cushioning
42,684 corpus weight
- cust
cust
42,683 corpus weight
- Cuzco
Cuzco
42,682 corpus weight
- Danni
Danni
42,679 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cust” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cust” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cust is uncommon English at frequency #57,318 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cust in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cust, spelled C-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of custody.
- 2Abbreviation of customer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Try explaining about those tabs with the little dots to a cust who doesn't know which web browser they use.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).