# butchered

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #28,473

## Definitions
1. Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.
2. Taken apart, destroyed or (figurative) distorted beyond recognition.

## Easily confused with
- **buttered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/butchered-vs-buttered)
- **butchery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/butchered-vs-butchery)
- **butcher** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/butcher-vs-butchered)
- **bothered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bothered-vs-butchered)
- **butcher's** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/butcher-s-vs-butchered)

## Common misspellings (14)
`bbutchered`, `btuchered`, `bucthered`, `butcchered`, `butcehred`, `butcheerd`, `butcherde`, `butcheredd`, `butcherred`, `butchhered`, `butchreed`, `buthcered`, `buttchered`, `ubtchered`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/butchered