butterball
noun
butterball is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-B-A-L-L: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, butterball means “A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of butterball is butterballs.
How many letters and syllables are in butterball?
| Letters | 10: B-U-T-T-E-R-B-A-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 90,432nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is butterball?
Butterball appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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 butterball?
Butterball has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-butterball.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of butterball
- butterballs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does butterball mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
- 2
derogatoryslangAn overweight person.
What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?.
- 3
A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does butterball come from?
From butter + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).