put
/pʊt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.66 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To physically place (sth or sb swh).
verb
To set as a calculation or estimate.
verb
To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
Example Sentences
- "She put her books on the table."
- "The police put him in a cell."
- "They put the new motorway right through the national park."
- "Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack."
- "‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’"
- "The government put restrictions on vehicle imports."
Etymology
From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pʊt/
- British English: /pʊt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
puts (present, singular)
putting (participle, present)
putten (UK, dialectal)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
puttest (archaic, present)
puttedst (archaic, past)
putteth (archaic, present)
- (imperative, past)
putt (alternative, obsolete)
puts (plural)