puschen
[ˈpʊʃn̩]
The verdict
“puschen” is uncommon German (frequency #76,074 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,074
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wasser lassen, urinieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-puschen · puschen · German
puschen · rank #76,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,074
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Protestler
Nearest frequency peer: Protestler (-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 „puschen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Privatinsol…
Privatinsolvenz
23,930 corpus weight
- Profisport
Profisport
23,929 corpus weight
- Protestler
Protestler
23,928 corpus weight
- puschen
puschen
23,927 corpus weight
- Pustekuchen
Pustekuchen
23,926 corpus weight
- Querstreifen
Querstreifen
23,925 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „puschen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpʊʃn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „puschen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
puschen is uncommon German at frequency #76,074 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpʊʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
puschen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is puschen, spelled P-U-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Wasser lassen, urinieren
- 2jemanden oder etwas bekannt machen, in eine unverdient hohe Position bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Halt an, ich muss mal puschen.
Er wurde von den Radiosendern massiv gepuscht.
This word in other languages
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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).