uncut

UK /ʌnˈkʌt/adjective

uncut is spelled U-N-C-U-T: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, uncut means “Not cut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uncut?

Letters	5: U-N-C-U-T
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	strut

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 uncut?

Uncut appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce uncut?

UK /ʌnˈkʌt/

Uncut has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-uncut.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with uncut?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as uncut from its last stressed vowel (/ʌt/, British pronunciation):

strut

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).

What does uncut mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
Not cut.
2
Of a gemstone, not cut or ground to the desired shape.
3
Of a book, not having the page edges trimmed.
4
Of a play, film, etc., not edited or abridged by a censor.
5
Not diluted.
6
informalNot circumcised.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Uncut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	non coupé (not cut)
German	ungeschnitten (not cut), ungeschliffen (not cut or ground to the desired shape)
Portuguese	não cortado (not cut), não talhado, em bruto (not cut or ground to the desired shape)
Spanish	sin cortes (not cut)

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 uncut come from?

From Middle English unkut, uncutte, unkyt, unkutt, equivalent to un- + cut.