Putze
[ˈpʊt͡sə]
The verdict
“Putze” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,740
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Putzfrau
Corpus desk
Index DE-putze · Putze · German
Putze · rank #31,740 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,740
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH PSV
Nearest frequency peer: PSV (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Putze“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- privatem
privatem
68,264 corpus weight
- Präsidenten…
Präsidentenwahl
68,263 corpus weight
- PSV
PSV
68,262 corpus weight
- Putze
Putze
68,261 corpus weight
- pädophilen
pädophilen
68,260 corpus weight
- quartiere
quartiere
68,259 corpus weight
What this shows „Putze“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Putze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʊt͡sə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Putze“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Putze (IPA [ˈpʊt͡sə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,740 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Putze, with forms such as "pputze", "ptuze", and "putez". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "putzt", "putzen", "puzzle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Putze, spelled P-U-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Putzfrau
- 2Druckwesen: „verschmutzte Punze“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Putze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine neue Putze macht immer sehr oberflächlich sauber.
„Augenscheinlich waren die verwendeten Lettern recht neu, denn die aus zeitgenössischen Drucken wohlbekannten, abnutzungsbedingten Putzen kommen praktisch gar nicht vor.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pputze
- ptuze
- putez
- puttze
- putzze
- puzte
- uptze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Putze - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Putze", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).