guttun
[ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]
The verdict
“guttun” is uncommon German (frequency #53,747 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,747
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine gute/positive Wirkung auf jemanden oder etwas haben, jemandem oder etwas zuträglich sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-guttun · guttun · German
guttun · rank #53,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,747
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gutmütig
Nearest frequency peer: gutmütig (-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 „guttun“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- grimes
grimes
46,258 corpus weight
- grow
grow
46,257 corpus weight
- guerre
guerre
46,256 corpus weight
- gutmütig
gutmütig
46,255 corpus weight
- guttun
guttun
46,254 corpus weight
- Haarspray
Haarspray
46,252 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „guttun“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guttun |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɡuːtˌtuːn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „guttun“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
guttun is uncommon German at frequency #53,747 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine gute/positive Wirkung auf jemanden oder etwas haben, jemandem oder etwas zuträglich sein".
guttun has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is guttun, spelled G-U-T-T-U-N.
Definition
- 1eine gute/positive Wirkung auf jemanden oder etwas haben, jemandem oder etwas zuträglich sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guttun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach dem langen Spaziergang im Schnee wird dir ein warmes Bad guttun.
Der Urlaub hat ihr gutgetan.
This word in other languages
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.
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