cutter
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "cutter", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "cutter" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "cutter" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
cutter is aEnglishnoun. It means: A person or device that cuts (in various senses). Pronounced /ˈkʌtɚ/. Often confused with cute and cater.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cutter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌtɚ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cutter is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkʌtɚ/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,195 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cutter, with forms such as "ccutter", "ctuter", and "cuter". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cute", "cater", "cutie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er. 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 cutter, spelled C-U-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- 2A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- 3A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- 4A foretooth; an incisor.
- 5A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- 6A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- 7A cut fastball.
- 8A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- 9A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- 10A surgeon.
- 11An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- 12An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- 13A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- 14A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- 15A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- 16A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- 17A knife.
- 18An active child.
- 19A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- 20A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
Etymology
From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccutter,ctuter,cuter,cutetr,cutterr,cuttre,uctter
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Misspelling Variants of "cutter"
Frequency rank: #11,195 in English
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