Butera
"butera" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Butera” is uncommon English (frequency #96,818 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,818
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Italian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-butera · Butera · English
Butera · rank #96,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,818
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH butterfingers
Nearest frequency peer: butterfingers (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Butera”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bufo
bufo
3,189 corpus weight
- Bugis
Bugis
3,188 corpus weight
- Bukharin
Bukharin
3,187 corpus weight
- Butera
Butera
3,183 corpus weight
- butterfinge…
butterfingers
3,181 corpus weight
- buz
buz
3,180 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Butera” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Butera |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Butera” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Butera is uncommon English at frequency #96,818 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Italian.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Butera in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Butera. The correct English form is Butera, spelled B-U-T-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Italian.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Butera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When Chris Buchleitner was still a baby, his parents made a plan for the worst-case scenario. His dad, Jack Buchleitner, came from a huge Catholic family in Pittsburgh — he was one of 10 children — and one day Jack and Dawn called Jack’s sister Mary Butera with an unusual request.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Butera.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).