cust
"cust" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cust” is uncommon English (frequency #57,318 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,318
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abbreviation of custody.
| 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) |
Where “cust” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cust is uncommon English at frequency #57,318 among 43,570 “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.
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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Using “cust”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-U-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.