puto

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for puto is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈpu.to\. Corpus data places it at rank #94,170 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Foutu, putain de, saloperie de, crisse de, saleté de.".

No misspelling variants are generated for puto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is puto, spelled P-U-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.