puffen
Letters
6 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
puffen is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden anstubsen, leicht stoßen Pronounced [ˈpʊfn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puffen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpʊfn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for puffen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpʊfn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for puffen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 puffen, spelled P-U-F-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden anstubsen, leicht stoßen
- 2unter Druck erhitzen und dadurch aufblähen
- 3ein dumpfes, stoßartiges Geräusch von sich geben
- 4(oft als Stoff oder Tuch) mehr Volumen bekommen, weil Luft darunter kommt und es wölbt; bauschen
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