cutoff

Other forms of cutoff

plural

cutoffs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cutoff

What does cutoff mean?

cutoff means "a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cutoff?

cutoff has 2 syllables: cut-off. The stress falls on "cut". In IPA it is /ˈkʌˌtɔf/.

What is another word for cutoff?

Close synonyms include shortcut, crosscut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cutoff a common word?

cutoff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cutoff?

2 words rhyme with cutoff. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.