Butze
[ˈbʊt͡sə]
The verdict
“Butze” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abgetrennte, fensterlose Schlafnische in Bauernhäusern
Corpus desk
Index DE-butze · Butze · German
Butze · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Butze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʊt͡sə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Butze“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Butze is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbʊt͡sə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Butze doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Butze, spelled B-U-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1abgetrennte, fensterlose Schlafnische in Bauernhäusern
- 2besonders kleine Bude, Bretterverschlag
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Butze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat heute seine Butze aufgeräumt.
„Doch als er hinterher in der Butze lag und überdachte, wie es ihm ergangen war, machte er die Finger an beiden Händen krumm.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.