Puls
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,121
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Puls is aGermannoun. It means: an den Schlagadern (Arterien) fühlbare Druckwelle, welche in der Systole durch die Auswurfarbeit des Herzens entsteht Pronounced [pʊls]. It ranks #8,121 in German word frequency. Often confused with PUR and put.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Puls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʊls] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Puls is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʊls]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,121 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Puls, with forms such as "ppuls", "pulls", and "pulss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PUR", "put", "pure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Puls, spelled P-U-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1an den Schlagadern (Arterien) fühlbare Druckwelle, welche in der Systole durch die Auswurfarbeit des Herzens entsteht
- 2Stelle am Handgelenk, wo man ^([1]) fühlen kann
- 3eine periodische Folge von Impulsen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppuls,pulls,pulss,pusl,upls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Puls
Misspelling Variants of "Puls"
Frequency rank: #8,121 in German
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