cutie
/ˈkjuːti/
"cutie" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cutie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,055
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cute person or animal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cutie · cutie · English
cutie · rank #19,055 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,055
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crowdfunding
Nearest frequency peer: crowdfunding (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cutie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cramps
cramps
80,949 corpus weight
- Croatian
Croatian
80,948 corpus weight
- crowdfunding
crowdfunding
80,947 corpus weight
- cutie
cutie
80,946 corpus weight
- dab
dab
80,945 corpus weight
- dar
dar
80,944 corpus weight
What this shows “cutie” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cutie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkjuːti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cutie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cutie (IPA /ˈkjuːti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,055 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A cute person or animal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cutie, with forms such as "ccutie", "ctuie", and "cuite". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuts", "cutter", "cutler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cute + -ie. The correct English form is cutie, spelled C-U-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1A cute person or animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cutie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]
Four students from Yarra Valley grammar in Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, were suspended last week after it came to light they had made the list. It included photos of female students ranking them as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and “unrapable”.
Etymology
From cute + -ie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccutie
- ctuie
- cuite
- cutei
- cuttie
- uctie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cutie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cutie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).