buttlicker

noun

"buttlicker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“buttlicker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A contemptible person; an ass-kisser.

Corpus desk

Index EN-buttlicker · buttlicker · English

buttlicker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for buttlicker
PropertyValue
Headwordbuttlicker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “buttlicker” in English

buttlickersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

buttlicker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

buttlicker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From butt + licker. The correct English form is buttlicker, spelled B-U-T-T-L-I-C-K-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A contemptible person; an ass-kisser.
  2. 2
    Someone who performs anilingus.

Etymology

From butt + licker.

Synonyms

buttkisserasslicker

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "buttlicker"?
"buttlicker" is spelled B-U-T-T-L-I-C-K-E-R.
What does "buttlicker" mean?
As a noun, "buttlicker" means: A contemptible person; an ass-kisser.
What is the origin of the word "buttlicker"?
From butt + licker. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list