Putt
[pʊt]
The verdict
“Putt” is an uncommon German word, ranked #71,747 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,747
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Putt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʊt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Putt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Putt is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʊt]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,747 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Putt in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Putt, spelled P-U-T-T.
Definition
- 1ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt
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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Using “Putt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-U-T-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pʊt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.