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butted

[ˈbʌɾɨd]adjective, verb

butted is spelled B-U-T-T-E-D: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, butted means “Affixed with a butt joint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in butted?

Letters6: B-U-T-T-E-D
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 48,230th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is butted?

Butted appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce butted?

  • /ˈbʌtɪd/
  • US [ˈbʌɾɨd]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-butted.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does butted mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Affixed with a butt joint.

  2. 2

    USslangHaving a butt or backside (of a specified kind).

    a big-butted woman

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of butt (a form of butt)

  2. 2

    simple past and past participle of but (a form of but)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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