flutterby
noun
flutterby is a noun meaning “Spoonerism of butterfly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-T-T-E-R-B-Y, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flutterby is flutterbies.
What does flutterby mean?
noun
- 1
Spoonerism of butterfly
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flutterby?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-flutterby.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flutterby
- flutterbies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flutterby?
Flutterby appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).