buttocks
/ˈbʌ.təks/
"buttocks" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buttocks” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,769
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of buttock.
Corpus desk
Index EN-buttocks · buttocks · English
buttocks · rank #23,769 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,769
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH burnout
Nearest frequency peer: burnout (-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 “buttocks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Britons
Britons
76,235 corpus weight
- burnout
burnout
76,233 corpus weight
- buttocks
buttocks
76,232 corpus weight
- buyout
buyout
76,231 corpus weight
- byte
byte
76,230 corpus weight
- cancerous
cancerous
76,229 corpus weight
What this shows “buttocks” 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 | buttocks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbʌ.təks/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “buttocks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around buttocks (IPA /ˈbʌ.təks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,769 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of buttock.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for buttocks, with forms such as "bbuttocks", "btutocks", and "butocks". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "buttons", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is buttocks, spelled B-U-T-T-O-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of buttock.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buttocks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuttocks
- btutocks
- butocks
- butotcks
- buttcoks
- buttoccks
- buttockks
- buttockss
- buttocsk
- buttokcs
- ubttocks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buttocks - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "buttocks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).