booty

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The verdict

“booty” is uncommon German (frequency #64,129 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,129
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Beute

Corpus desk

Index DE-booty · booty · German

booty · rank #64,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,129
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH boomen

Nearest frequency peer: boomen (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „booty“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „booty“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for booty
PropertyValue
Headwordbooty
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#64,129
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „booty“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.bootyfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „boomen“ (#64,128), „Brandmeldeanlage“ (#64,130), „Bombardements“ (#64,127). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „booty“ bei #64,129. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

booty is uncommon German at frequency #64,129 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for booty in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is booty, spelled B-O-O-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Beute
  2. 2
    die Kriegsbeute
  3. 3
    ein fetter Gewinn, Preis oder ein Geschenk, eine wertvolle Auszeichnung
  4. 4
    AE
  5. 5
    AE
  6. 6
    AE
  7. 7
    AE
  8. 8
    AE

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how booty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. And now there is conflict about the booty.
  2. And they are not participating in this religious war out of religious conviction or piety but rather for the booty to be had.

Synonyms

lootpillageplunderpillagepreyprizequarryswagbuttocks

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "booty"?
"booty" is spelled B-O-O-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "booty" mean?
As a noun, "booty" means: die Beute
How do you pronounce "booty"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "booty" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "booty" come from?
"booty" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "booty", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Calbe#64,145Chino#64,153curse#64,166dalli#64,168

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list