cut
\kœt\
The verdict
“cut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,668) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,668
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pointage permettant de se qualifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cut · cut · French
cut · rank #17,668 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,668
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH célébrations
Nearest frequency peer: célébrations (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cut »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- coupez
coupez
82,336 corpus weight
- crochets
crochets
82,335 corpus weight
- cut
cut
82,333 corpus weight
- célébrations
célébrations
82,332 corpus weight
- célébrée
célébrée
82,331 corpus weight
- dater
dater
82,330 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cut » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cut »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cut is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kœt\. Frequency #17,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
cut has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cy", "CX", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cut, spelled C-U-T.
Definition
- 1Pointage permettant de se qualifier.
- 2cut in et cut out: changements de file ou de voie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deuxième jour plus chaotique, un moment sorti du cut, il s’est repris pour rentrer avec le par… et passer le weekend dans les faubourgs de Las Vegas.
L’Américaine Ally Ewing a conservé avec la manière la tête du British Open vendredi grâce à une carte de 66 (-6 sous le par), alors que Céline Boutier a passé le cut mais reste au dessus du par (+1) à mi-tournoi.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).