putschen
German, verb
putschen is spelled P-U-T-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 118,498th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Putschen is a German verb meaning “to organize a coup d'état” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Putschen is a different word: “dative plural of Putsch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “versuchen, einen Umsturz herbeizuführen”.
What does putschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to organize a coup d'état
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Putsch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. versuchen, einen Umsturz herbeizuführen
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 putschen
- putscht present singular third-person
- putschte past
- geputscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- putschend participle present
- putsche first-person indicative present
- putschst indicative present second-person
- putschest second-person singular subjunctive
- putschet plural second-person subjunctive
- putschten first-person indicative plural
- putschtest indicative preterite second-person
- putschtet indicative plural preterite
- putsch imperative second-person singular
- habe geputscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- putsch! imperative singular
- putsche! imperative singular
- putscht! imperative plural
- geputscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is putschen in German?
putschen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).