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cutter

/ˈkʌtɚ/noun

cutter is spelled C-U-T-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cutter means “A person or device that cuts (in various senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cutter is cutters.

How many letters and syllables are in cutter?

Letters6: C-U-T-T-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cutter?

Cutter appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 cutter?

  • US /ˈkʌtɚ/
  • UK /ˈkʌtə/

Cutter 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-cutter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cutter?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cutter from its last stressed vowel (/ʌtəɹ/):

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 cutter

  • cutters plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cutter mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

    a stone cutter; a die cutter

  2. 2

    A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.

  3. 3

    A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

    a coastguard cutter.

  4. 4

    A foretooth; an incisor.

  5. 5

    A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.

  6. 6

    A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.

  7. 7

    A cut fastball.

  8. 8

    slangA ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cutter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcoupeur, coupeuse (person that cuts), cotre (single-masted sailing ship type), chaloupe (ship's boat)
GermanSchneider, Schneiderin, Abschneider, Abschneiderin (person that cuts), Kutter (single-masted sailing ship type)
Portuguesecortador (person that cuts), cúter (single-masted sailing ship type)
Spanishcortador (person that cuts), cúter (single-masted sailing ship type), cortadora (device that cuts), trineo (sleigh)

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 cutter come from?

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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