Butter
German, noun
Butter is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 4,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Butter is a German feminine noun meaning “butter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, butter is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Milch (vor allem Kuhmilch) gewonnenes weißes bis gelbliches, streichfähiges Speisefett bestehend aus…”.
What does Butter mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinebutter
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aus Milch (vor allem Kuhmilch) gewonnenes weißes bis gelbliches, streichfähiges Speisefett bestehend aus mindestens 80 % Milchfett und höchstens 16 % Wasser, dem weitere Inhaltsstoffe (zum Beispiel: Kochsalz, amtlich zugelassene [pflanzliche] Farbstoffe) zugesetzt sein können, und das besonders als Brotaufstrich verwendet wird
noun: 1. Scheibe Brot, die (unter anderem) mit einer Schicht Butter bestrichen ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Butter
- Butters genitive
- Bütterken diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Butter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Butter in German?
Butter appears 15 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).