Butz
German, noun
Butz is spelled B-U-T-Z (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Butz is a German masculine noun meaning “apple core” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, bütz is a different word: “singular imperative of bützen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gespensterhafte Figur, die Angst verbreitet”.
What does Butz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapple core
noun
- 1
masculinegoblin
verb
- 1
singular imperative of bützen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of bützen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gespensterhafte Figur, die Angst verbreitet
noun: 1. Kerngehäuse eines Apfels
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 Butz
- Butzen genitive
- Butze variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Butz in German?
Butz appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).