Putt

[pʊt]

/[pʊt]/ noun

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The verdict

“Putt” is uncommon German (frequency #71,747 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,747
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt

Corpus desk

Index DE-putt · Putt · German

Putt · rank #71,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,747
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Pups

Nearest frequency peer: Pups (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “Putt”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “Putt” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Putt
PropertyValue
HeadwordPutt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pʊt]
Letters4
Frequency rank#71,747
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Putt” sits in German frequency

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Putt lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Putt is uncommon German at frequency #71,747 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʊt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Putt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vor jedem Putt markieren die Golfprofis ihren Ball, nehmen ihn auf und werfen ihn zu ihrem Caddie, der ihn sorgfältig putzt.
  2. Den Putt zum Birdie konnte er nicht verwandeln.

Antonyms

AbschlagChipDrivePitch

This word in other languages

putt(English)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Putt"?
"Putt" is spelled P-U-T-T. The IPA pronunciation is [pʊt].
What does "Putt" mean?
As a noun, "Putt" means: ein Schlag auf dem Grün mit dem Putter, bei dem der Golfball in Richtung Loch rollt und im Idealfall ins Loch fällt
How do you pronounce "Putt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Putt" is [pʊt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Putt" come from?
"Putt" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Putt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Pups#71,746pari#71,692nier#71,660MRSA#71,638

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list