cutoff
/kəˈtɔf/noun, adjective
cutoff is spelled C-U-T-O-F-F: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “cut-off vs cutoff” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, cutoff means “The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cutoff is cutoffs.
How many letters and syllables are in cutoff?
| Letters | 6: C-U-T-O-F-F |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cutoff?
Cutoff appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cutoff?
- UK /kəˈtɒf/
- UK /kəˈtɔːf/
- US /kəˈtɔf/
Cutoff has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cut_off.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-cutoff.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cutoff
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: cut-off (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cutoff?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cutoff from its last stressed vowel (/ɔf/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cutoff
- cutoffs plural
- cut off
- cut-off
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cutoff mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- 2
A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- 3
A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- 4
A device that stops the flow of a current.
- 5
A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- 6
A cessation in a flow or activity.
- 7
The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- 8
Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
adjective
- 1
Constituting a limit or ending.
- 2
Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate cutoff?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cutoff: CO.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cutoff in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense point at which something terminates or to which it is limited:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cutoff come from?
Deverbal from cut off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).