# cutter

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkʌtɚ/ · frequency rank #11,195

## Definitions
1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
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. A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
4. A foretooth; an incisor.
5. A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. A cut fastball.
8. A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
9. A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
10. A surgeon.
11. An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
12. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
13. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
14. A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
15. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
16. A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
17. A knife.
18. An active child.
19. A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
20. A 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.

## Easily confused with
- **cute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cute-vs-cutter)
- **cater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cater-vs-cutter)
- **cutie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cutie-vs-cutter)
- **center** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/center-vs-cutter)
- **Carter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carter-vs-cutter)
- **crater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crater-vs-cutter)
- **cutler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cutler-vs-cutter)
- **caster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/caster-vs-cutter)
- **culver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/culver-vs-cutter)
- **cotter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cotter-vs-cutter)
- **canter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canter-vs-cutter)
- **cluster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cluster-vs-cutter)
- **chatter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chatter-vs-cutter)
- **clutter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clutter-vs-cutter)
- **coulter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coulter-vs-cutter)
- **cutlery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cutlery-vs-cutter)
- **critter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/critter-vs-cutter)
- **clatter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clatter-vs-cutter)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccutter`, `ctuter`, `cuter`, `cutetr`, `cutterr`, `cuttre`, `uctter`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cutter