put to death
"put-to-death" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put to death” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | put to death |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “put to death” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for put to death is 12 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.".
put to death has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is put to death, spelled P-U-T- -T-O- -D-E-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “put to death”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-U-T- -T-O- -D-E-A-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.