puto
/ˈpuːtoʊ/
"puto" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“puto” is uncommon English (frequency #68,561 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,561
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.
Corpus desk
Index EN-puto · puto · English
puto · rank #68,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,561
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH puro
Nearest frequency peer: puro (-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 “puto”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pumper
pumper
31,443 corpus weight
- puritanism
puritanism
31,442 corpus weight
- puro
puro
31,441 corpus weight
- puto
puto
31,440 corpus weight
- quadrennial
quadrennial
31,439 corpus weight
- ragging
ragging
31,437 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “puto” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puto |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpuːtoʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “puto” in English
Rare enough to double-check
puto is uncommon English at frequency #68,561 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpuːtoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for puto in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tagalog puto (and other Philippine languages), from Malay putu as in Malay kuih putu (“Kue putu”), from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”). The correct English form is puto, spelled P-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.
Etymology
From Tagalog puto (and other Philippine languages), from Malay putu as in Malay kuih putu (“Kue putu”), from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).