cutie

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for cutie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkjuːti/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,055 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A cute person or animal.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cutie, with forms such as "ccutie", "ctuie", and "cuite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuts", "cutter", "cutler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From cute + -ie. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is cutie, spelled C-U-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.