Kutte

[ˈkʊtə]

/[ˈkʊtə]/ noun

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The verdict

“Kutte” is uncommon German (frequency #55,494 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,494
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von Mönchen getragenes, langes und weites Gewand, eigentlich: Habit

Corpus desk

Index DE-kutte · Kutte · German

Kutte · rank #55,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,494
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH Königshauses

Nearest frequency peer: Königshauses (+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 „Kutte“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kutte
PropertyValue
HeadwordKutte
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkʊtə]
Letters5
Frequency rank#55,494
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Kutte“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Königshauses“ (#55,495), „Kursbuch“ (#55,492), „kuriosen“ (#55,491). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „Kutte“ bei #55,494. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kutte is uncommon German at frequency #55,494 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʊtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Kutte has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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. The correct German form is Kutte, spelled K-U-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    von Mönchen getragenes, langes und weites Gewand, eigentlich: Habit
  2. 2
    ärmellose Jeansjacke mit Aufnähern, die bevorzugt in der Metal-Szene getragen wird

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Die originalen Kutten waren natürlich aus Wolle, aber das ist teuer.“
  2. „Erst hielt er etwas für eine Kutte, beim Näherkommen erkannte er in ihm einen Sack.“

This word in other languages

habit(English)hábito(Español)froc(Français)

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 "Kutte"?
"Kutte" is spelled K-U-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkʊtə].
What does "Kutte" mean?
As a noun, "Kutte" means: von Mönchen getragenes, langes und weites Gewand, eigentlich: Habit
How do you pronounce "Kutte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kutte" is [ˈkʊtə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kutte" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

leert#55,507livre#55,518Kamil#55,458Mamis#55,532

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list