swear like a cutter
"swear-like-a-cutter" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swear like a cutter” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of swear like a trooper.
Corpus desk
Index EN-swear-like-a-cutter · swear like a cutter · English
swear like a cutter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- 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 | swear like a cutter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swear like a cutter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swear like a cutter is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of swear like a trooper.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for swear like a cutter, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is swear like a cutter, spelled S-W-E-A-R- -L-I-K-E- -A- -C-U-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Synonym of swear like a trooper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how swear like a cutter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Patrick swore like a cutter as Antonia rushed to the minister as if he were about to rescue her from all evil. Mayhap she thought that was so, but the minister was frozen like Lot's wife.
Shouting at the top of his lungs and swearing like a cutter, Chip raged at the voices which were shoving him to the brink.
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.