kaputt tritt
The verdict
“kaputt tritt” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs kaputt treten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kaputt tritt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kaˈpʊt ˌtʁɪt͡st] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kaputt tritt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kaputt tritt is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpʊt ˌtʁɪt͡st]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs kaputt treten".
No misspelling variants are generated for kaputt tritt in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is kaputt tritt, spelled K-A-P-U-T-T- -T-R-I-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs kaputt treten
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Using “kaputt tritt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-A-P-U-T-T- -T-R-I-T-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈpʊt ˌtʁɪt͡st] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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