Büttner
[ˈbʏtnɐ]
The verdict
“Büttner” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,494
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die Fässer herstellt
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 | Büttner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʏtnɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Büttner” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Büttner (IPA [ˈbʏtnɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,494 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die Fässer herstellt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Büttner, with forms such as "bbüttner", "btütner", and "bütner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Butter", "bitter", "Butler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Büttner, spelled B-Ü-T-T-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die Fässer herstellt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbüttner
- btütner
- bütner
- bütnter
- büttenr
- büttnerr
- büttnner
- büttnre
- übttner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Büttner - 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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Using “Büttner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-Ü-T-T-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbʏtnɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Butter” - see the side-by-side comparison. Büttner vs Butter
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.