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kaput

/kəˈpʊt/ Australia, UK
/kəˈpɵt/ British, Southern, Standard
/kəˈpʊt/ US
/kɑ-/ US
/-ˈput/ US
/kəˈpʉt/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like caput (sometimes) · Rhymes with -ʊt, -uːt

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.

adjective kaputt

informal, not comparable Out of order; not working. My car went kaput.
Similar: broken, bad, borked, broken-down, bum, bung, busted, cactused, crocked, dead, Donald Ducked, down

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adj out of order

Português	enguiçado, pifado
Français	fini, capout, en panne, en carafe
Deutsch	kaputt
Română	stricat, distrus
Русский	капу́т kapút

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"kaput." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/kaput. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

kaput. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/kaput

Chicago

"kaput." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/kaput.

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@misc{kaput_2026,
  title = {kaput},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kaput},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}