butterbody

noun

"butterbody" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“butterbody” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woman who has an attractive face but a less attractive body.

Corpus desk

Index EN-butterbody · butterbody · English

butterbody · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for butterbody
PropertyValue
Headwordbutterbody
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “butterbody” in English

butterbodysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

butterbody is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman who has an attractive face but a less attractive body.".

butterbody doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: After the model of butterface, equivalent to an ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her body, great face but her body, etc., under the influence of butter, which see. The correct English form is butterbody, spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-B-O-D-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A woman who has an attractive face but a less attractive body.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how butterbody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Her body really wasn’t that great, on second thought. Her arms and neck were tight and thin, but her hips and legs were a little dumpy. She was sort of a butterbody, really.
  2. The list began as an online poll letting men of all ages cast their votes for the biggest butterbodies of 2008. But what exactly is a butterbody? According to the Spike TV website, butterbodies are girls who are hot everywhere but their bodies.

Etymology

After the model of butterface, equivalent to an ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her body, great face but her body, etc., under the influence of butter, which see.

Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "butterbody"?
"butterbody" is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-B-O-D-Y.
What does "butterbody" mean?
As a noun, "butterbody" means: A woman who has an attractive face but a less attractive body.
What is the origin of the word "butterbody"?
After the model of butterface, equivalent to an ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her body, great face but her body, etc., under the influence of butter, which see. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list