butthead
/ˈbʌtˌhɛd/
"butthead" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“butthead” is uncommon English (frequency #61,339 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,339
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.
Corpus desk
Index EN-butthead · butthead · English
butthead · rank #61,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,339
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Caliban
Nearest frequency peer: Caliban (+3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “butthead”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brownback
brownback
38,668 corpus weight
- bumming
bumming
38,667 corpus weight
- butthead
butthead
38,662 corpus weight
- Caliban
Caliban
38,659 corpus weight
- Candi
Candi
38,657 corpus weight
- capuchin
capuchin
38,656 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “butthead” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butthead |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbʌtˌhɛd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “butthead” in English
Rare enough to double-check
butthead is uncommon English at frequency #61,339 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbʌtˌhɛd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for butthead, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From butt (“buttocks, backside”) + head. Compare buttface. The correct English form is butthead, spelled B-U-T-T-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1An annoying person or someone who is difficult to get along with.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how butthead appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If you think, "He is such a butthead," you might ask yourself what a butthead would...
Etymology
From butt (“buttocks, backside”) + head. Compare buttface.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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