putsch
/pʊt͡ʃ/
"putsch" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“putsch” is uncommon English (frequency #63,164 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,164
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Corpus desk
Index EN-putsch · putsch · English
putsch · rank #63,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,164
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pursuer
Nearest frequency peer: pursuer (-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 “putsch”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pula
pula
36,840 corpus weight
- pursuer
pursuer
36,838 corpus weight
- putsch
putsch
36,837 corpus weight
- quadrature
quadrature
36,836 corpus weight
- quadriplegic
quadriplegic
36,835 corpus weight
- quelling
quelling
36,833 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “putsch” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | putsch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pʊt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “putsch” in English
Rare enough to double-check
putsch is uncommon English at frequency #63,164 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pʊt͡ʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for putsch, 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin. The correct English form is putsch, spelled P-U-T-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how putsch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98. "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what…
Etymology
Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.
This word in other languages
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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