cutlets

noun

"cutlets" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“cutlets” is uncommon English (frequency #65,029 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,029
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cutlet

Corpus desk

Index EN-cutlets · cutlets · English

cutlets · rank #65,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,029
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH curvaceous

Nearest frequency peer: curvaceous (-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 “cutlets”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “cutlets” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cutlets
PropertyValue
Headwordcutlets
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,029
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cutlets” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).cutletsfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “curvaceous” (#65,028), “cwm” (#65,030), “crumple” (#65,027). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “cutlets” is #65,029. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cutlets is uncommon English at frequency #65,029 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cutlet".

cutlets has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cutlets, spelled C-U-T-L-E-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of cutlet

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cutlets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Make a marinade with melted butter, mushrooms, shalots, half a clove of garlic, pepper and salt, and let the cutlets simmer in this for an hour ; ...
  2. Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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As a noun, "cutlets" means: plural of cutlet
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cutlets", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list