butterhead lettuce
"butterhead-lettuce" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“butterhead lettuce” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boston lettuce
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butterhead lettuce |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “butterhead lettuce” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for butterhead lettuce is 18 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Boston lettuce".
butterhead lettuce doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is butterhead lettuce, spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-H-E-A-D- -L-E-T-T-U-C-E.
Definition
- 1Boston lettuce
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.
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Using “butterhead lettuce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-T-T-E-R-H-E-A-D- -L-E-T-T-U-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.