puter
/ˈpjuː.tə/
"puter" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“puter” is uncommon English (frequency #90,868 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,868
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of computer
Corpus desk
Index EN-puter · puter · English
puter · rank #90,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,868
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pulliam
Nearest frequency peer: Pulliam (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “puter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pruritus
pruritus
9,137 corpus weight
- psychoanaly…
psychoanalytical
9,136 corpus weight
- Pulliam
Pulliam
9,134 corpus weight
- puter
puter
9,133 corpus weight
- putrefaction
putrefaction
9,131 corpus weight
- qazi
qazi
9,129 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “puter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpjuː.tə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “puter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
puter is uncommon English at frequency #90,868 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpjuː.tə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clipping of computer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for puter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 puter, spelled P-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Clipping of computer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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