cutting
The verdict
“cutting” is uncommon French (frequency #71,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,410
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discipline d'équitation western, pendant laquelle le cavalier et sa monture sont jugés sur leur habileté à séparer un bovin du reste de son troupeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cutting · cutting · French
cutting · rank #71,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Curtius
Nearest frequency peer: Curtius (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cutting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cumberbatch
Cumberbatch
28,594 corpus weight
- curran
curran
28,593 corpus weight
- Curtius
Curtius
28,592 corpus weight
- cutting
cutting
28,591 corpus weight
- Cylons
Cylons
28,590 corpus weight
- cyrène
cyrène
28,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cutting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cutting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cutting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cutting is uncommon French at frequency #71,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cutting in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cutting, spelled C-U-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Discipline d'équitation western, pendant laquelle le cavalier et sa monture sont jugés sur leur habileté à séparer un bovin du reste de son troupeau.
- 2Automutilation chez certains adolescents consistant à se couper la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cutting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cutting est devenu un sport lorsque les cowboys organisèrent les premiers concours afin de déterminer quel était le meilleur cheval pour isoler les veaux.
… on a retrouvé des dizaines de coupures sur son corps, des blessures qu’elle s’infligeait régulièrement. Cutting, dans le jargon…
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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