cutup
/ˈkʌtˌʌp/noun
cutup is spelled C-U-T-U-P: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cutup means “Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cutup is cutups.
How many letters and syllables are in cutup?
| Letters | 5: C-U-T-U-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is cutup?
Cutup appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 cutup?
- /ˈkʌtˌʌp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cutup
- cutups plural
- cut-up
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cutup mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster
- 2
A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cutup come from?
Deverbal from cut up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).