bust one's butt
"bust-one-s-butt" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bust one's butt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To work exceptionally hard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bust-one-s-butt · bust one's butt · English
bust one's butt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | bust one's butt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bust one's butt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bust one's butt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To work exceptionally hard.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bust one's butt, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is bust one's butt, spelled B-U-S-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -B-U-T-T.
Definition
- 1To work exceptionally hard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bust one's butt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I've been busting my butt getting the tent fixed, while you're just sipping cocoa. Give me a hand.
I have several friends who are public defenders. They are competent, hard working attorneys who bust their butts every day to give these people the best defense available at any price.
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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.