butterfat
but·ter·fat/ˈbʌtɚfæt/noun
butterfat is a noun meaning “The fatty components of milk and other dairy products” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-F-A-T and has 3 syllables (but·ter·fat), and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of butterfat is butterfats.
What does butterfat mean?
noun
- 1
The fatty components of milk and other dairy products.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce butterfat?
- UK /ˈbʌtəfæt/
- US /ˈbʌtɚfæt/
- US /-ɾɚ-/
Butterfat has 3 syllables, split but·ter·fat in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-butterfat.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of butterfat
- butterfats plural
- butter fat
- butter-fat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is butterfat?
Butterfat appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).
Butterfat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the fatty components of milk and other dairy products:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Milchfett |
| Spanish | grasa butírica |
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 butterfat come from?
From butter + fat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).