# putt

> English word · Noun · IPA /pʌt/ · frequency rank #23,957

## Definitions
1. The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.

## Easily confused with
- **putty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/putt-vs-putty)
- **putter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/putt-vs-putter)
- **pt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pt-vs-putt)
- **PU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pu-vs-putt)
- **put** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/put-vs-putt)
- **pet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pet-vs-putt)
- **pot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pot-vs-putt)
- **pit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pit-vs-putt)
- **pat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pat-vs-putt)
- **pub** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pub-vs-putt)
- **pup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pup-vs-putt)
- **pun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pun-vs-putt)
- **PTS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pts-vs-putt)
- **PST** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pst-vs-putt)
- **PCT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pct-vs-putt)
- **pug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pug-vs-putt)
- **PTA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pta-vs-putt)
- **pus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pus-vs-putt)
- **pur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pur-vs-putt)
- **PTO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pto-vs-putt)

## Common misspellings (3)
`pputt`, `ptut`, `uptt`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/putt