scut
/skʌt/
"scut" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scut” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scut · scut · English
scut · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scut |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skʌt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scut” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scut is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /skʌt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
scut has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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; s… The correct English form is scut, spelled S-C-U-T.
Definition
- 1A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
- 2A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- 3The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.
Etymology
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. As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.