buttered
/ˈbʌtəɹd/
"buttered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buttered” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,812
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of butter
Corpus desk
Index EN-buttered · buttered · English
buttered · rank #34,812 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,812
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH burley
Nearest frequency peer: burley (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “buttered”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Budd
Budd
65,192 corpus weight
- burdensome
burdensome
65,191 corpus weight
- burley
burley
65,190 corpus weight
- buttered
buttered
65,189 corpus weight
- cadmium
cadmium
65,188 corpus weight
- Callaway
Callaway
65,187 corpus weight
What this shows “buttered” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buttered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbʌtəɹd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “buttered”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around buttered (IPA /ˈbʌtəɹd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,812 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of butter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for buttered, with forms such as "bbuttered", "btutered", and "butered". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "butters", "buttery", "buttoned", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is buttered, spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of butter
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuttered
- btutered
- butered
- butetred
- butteerd
- butterde
- butteredd
- butterred
- buttreed
- ubttered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buttered - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).