cutwork
noun
cutwork is a noun meaning “A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-T-W-O-R-K, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cutwork is cutworks.
What does cutwork mean?
noun
- 1
A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cutwork
- cutworks plural
- cut work
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cutwork?
Cutwork appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Where does cutwork come from?
From Middle English cut-werk, equivalent to cut + work.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).