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Added 8 October 2026

kaput

/kəˈpʊt/ adjective

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about kaput at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Out of order; not working.
My car went kaput.

Origin

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.

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