peanut butter
/ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/
"peanut-butter" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peanut butter” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A spread made from ground peanuts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peanut butter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peanut butter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
peanut butter is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A spread made from ground peanuts.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for peanut butter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is peanut butter, spelled P-E-A-N-U-T- -B-U-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A spread made from ground peanuts.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “peanut butter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-A-N-U-T- -B-U-T-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.