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Puls

German, noun/pʊls/

Puls is spelled P-U-L-S (4 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written German, the 8,046th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puls is a German masculine noun meaning “pulse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “an den Schlagadern (Arterien) fühlbare Druckwelle, welche in der Systole durch die Auswurfarbeit des Herzens…”.

What does Puls mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepulse

    den Puls fühlen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. an den Schlagadern (Arterien) fühlbare Druckwelle, welche in der Systole durch die Auswurfarbeit des Herzens entsteht 2. Stelle am Handgelenk, wo man die Druckwelle des Herzschlags fühlen kann 3. eine periodische Folge von Impulsen

noun: 1. Brei aus Getreide, der im alten Rom als Grundnahrungsmittel diente

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Puls

  • Pulses genitive
  • Pulse plural
  • Pulsen dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Puls?

  • /pʊls/
  • [pʊls]
  • […]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Puls

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Puls in German?

Puls appears 8.5 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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