scut
/skʌt/noun, verb
scut is spelled S-C-U-T: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scut means “A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scut is scuts.
How many letters and syllables are in scut?
| Letters | 4: S-C-U-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 18 million words; the 127,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is scut?
Scut appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 scut?
- UK /skʌt/
- US /skʌt/
- US /skət/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-scut.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scut?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scut from its last stressed vowel (/ʌt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cuts.
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 scut
- scuts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- scutting participle, present
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scut mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
- 2
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
- 3
The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
- 4
IrelandcolloquialA contemptible person.
- 5
Distasteful work; drudgery
- 6
slangSome menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
verb
- 1
To scamper off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense short, erect tail:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Blume |
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 scut come from?
From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).