cutesy
/ˈkjutsi/
"cutesy" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cutesy” is uncommon English (frequency #51,641 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,641
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cutesy · cutesy · English
cutesy · rank #51,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,641
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH curatorial
Nearest frequency peer: curatorial (-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 “cutesy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- creditable
creditable
48,364 corpus weight
- cringey
cringey
48,363 corpus weight
- curatorial
curatorial
48,361 corpus weight
- cutesy
cutesy
48,360 corpus weight
- darshan
darshan
48,357 corpus weight
- datum
datum
48,356 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cutesy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cutesy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkjutsi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cutesy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cutesy is uncommon English at frequency #51,641 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkjutsi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.".
cutesy has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 cute + -sy. The correct English form is cutesy, spelled C-U-T-E-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cutesy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The couple called each other cutesy pet names like "honeypot" and "smoochie-poochie" that disgusted everyone else.
If each subject attracts roughly the same amount of attention (and with a judgmental adjustment to drop the more cutesy papers), that's roughly 100 papers per topic.
Etymology
From cute + -sy.
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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