guttun

[ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]

/[ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]/ verb

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guttun
PropertyValue
Headwordguttun
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#53,747
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „guttun“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).guttunfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „gutmütig“ (#53,746), „guerre“ (#53,745), „Haarspray“ (#53,749). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „guttun“ bei #53,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    eine gute/positive Wirkung auf jemanden oder etwas haben, jemandem oder etwas zuträglich sein

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nach dem langen Spaziergang im Schnee wird dir ein warmes Bad guttun.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guttun"?
"guttun" is spelled G-U-T-T-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡuːtˌtuːn].
What does "guttun" mean?
As a verb, "guttun" means: eine gute/positive Wirkung auf jemanden oder etwas haben, jemandem oder etwas zuträglich sein
How do you pronounce "guttun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guttun" is [ˈɡuːtˌtuːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guttun" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list