buttery
/ˈbʌtəɹi/
"buttery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buttery” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,304
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Made with or tasting of butter.
Corpus desk
Index EN-buttery · buttery · English
buttery · rank #32,304 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,304
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH breezes
Nearest frequency peer: breezes (-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 “buttery”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- brats
brats
67,700 corpus weight
- breech
breech
67,699 corpus weight
- breezes
breezes
67,698 corpus weight
- buttery
buttery
67,697 corpus weight
- Cadbury
Cadbury
67,696 corpus weight
- caliph
caliph
67,694 corpus weight
What this shows “buttery” 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 | buttery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbʌtəɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “buttery”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around buttery (IPA /ˈbʌtəɹi/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,304 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for buttery, with forms such as "bbuttery", "btutery", and "butery". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "butte", "better", "butter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic. The correct English form is buttery, spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Made with or tasting of butter.
- 2Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
- 3Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
- 4Ellipsis of buttery smooth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buttery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
Etymology
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuttery
- btutery
- butery
- butetry
- butterry
- butteryy
- butteyr
- buttrey
- ubttery
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buttery - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "buttery", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).