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cutty

/ˈkʌti/adjective, noun

cutty is spelled C-U-T-T-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cutty means “Short, shortened, or small; curtailed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cutty?

Letters5: C-U-T-T-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is cutty?

Cutty appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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 cutty?

  • /ˈkʌti/

Cutty 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cutty.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cutty

  • more cutty comparative
  • most cutty superlative
  • cuttie
  • cutties plural

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

What does cutty mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    ScotlandShort, shortened, or small; curtailed.

  2. 2

    Having many cuts.

  3. 3

    Sharp, cutting easily.

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA short spoon.

  2. 2

    ScotlandA short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.

  3. 3

    ScotlandarchaicA wanton or unchaste woman.

  4. 4

    ScotlandarchaicA girl with a short, dumpy figure.

  5. 5

    A girl or young woman.

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

Where does cutty come from?

From cut + -y.

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

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