Words · Rare
putto
5 letters · 4 distinct letters
putto is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
Borrowed from Italian putto (“cupid, putto; boy”), from Latin putus (“boy”), a variant of pūsus (“(little) boy”), from puer (“boy, lad; child”), from Proto Italic *puweros, ultimately from Proto Indo European *peh₂w (“few, little; smallness”). The plural form putti is also borrowed from Italian putti.
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word Words found only in the largest list score as bonus words rather than daily answers.