Butler
[ˈbatlɐ]
The verdict
“Butler” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,471. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,471
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diener, der bei einer wohlhabenden Familie (insbesondere in Großbritannien) arbeitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-butler · Butler · German
Butler · rank #12,471 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,471
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bremse
Nearest frequency peer: Bremse (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Butler“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- besonderem
besonderem
87,533 corpus weight
- bewaffnete
bewaffnete
87,532 corpus weight
- Bremse
Bremse
87,531 corpus weight
- Butler
Butler
87,530 corpus weight
- Bürgerschaft
Bürgerschaft
87,529 corpus weight
- Bürokratie
Bürokratie
87,528 corpus weight
What this shows „Butler“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Butler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbatlɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Butler“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Butler (IPA [ˈbatlɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,471 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diener, der bei einer wohlhabenden Familie (insbesondere in Großbritannien) arbeitet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Butler, with forms such as "bbutler", "btuler", and "bulter". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Butter", "Büttner", "Bulle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Butler, spelled B-U-T-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Diener, der bei einer wohlhabenden Familie (insbesondere in Großbritannien) arbeitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Butler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stellen Sie sich vor, meine Liebe, als unser Butler letzte Woche krank war, musste ich selbst ans Telefon gehen, wenn jemand anrief!
„Natürlich hatte die Gräfin außer dem Butler noch anderes Personal: Zimmermädchen, Koch, Köchin, Gärtner, Zofe, Chauffeur.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbutler
- btuler
- bulter
- butelr
- butlerr
- butller
- butlre
- buttler
- ubtler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Butler - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Butler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).