buttercream
noun
buttercream is a noun meaning “A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-C-R-E-A-M, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of buttercream is buttercreams.
What does buttercream mean?
noun
- 1
A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce buttercream?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-buttercream.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of buttercream
- buttercreams plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is buttercream?
Buttercream appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,954th 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).
Words people confuse with buttercream
Also written: butter cream (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Buttercream in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of icing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Buttercreme |
| Spanish | crema de mantequilla |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does buttercream come from?
From butter + cream.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).