cut
/kʌt/
The verdict
“cut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,090) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,090
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corte, incisión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cut · cut · Spanish
cut · rank #24,090 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,090
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH curiosas
Nearest frequency peer: curiosas (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cut”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- cultivan
cultivan
75,914 corpus weight
- cumplí
cumplí
75,913 corpus weight
- curiosas
curiosas
75,912 corpus weight
- cut
cut
75,911 corpus weight
- cuña
cuña
75,910 corpus weight
- cócteles
cócteles
75,908 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cut” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cut |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cut”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cut is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cuyo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kʌt/. Frequency #24,090 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Corte, incisión.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cut, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cuyo", "cuya", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Spanish form is cut, spelled C-U-T.
Definition
- 1Corte, incisión.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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