beurrer
\bœ.ʁe\
The verdict
“beurrer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,274 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,274
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recouvrir de beurre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beurrer · beurrer · French
beurrer · rank #64,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,274
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bibeau
Nearest frequency peer: Bibeau (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « beurrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bercée
bercée
35,730 corpus weight
- bernardins
bernardins
35,729 corpus weight
- beurrer
beurrer
35,727 corpus weight
- Bibeau
Bibeau
35,726 corpus weight
- bienfaitrice
bienfaitrice
35,725 corpus weight
- bipède
bipède
35,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beurrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beurrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bœ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beurrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beurrer is uncommon French at frequency #64,274 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bœ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for beurrer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is beurrer, spelled B-E-U-R-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Recouvrir de beurre.
- 2Ajouter du beurre à quelque chose.
- 3Recouvrir quelque chose avec autre chose que du beurre.
- 4Se retrouver ivre.
- 5Salir, tacher.
- 6Beurrer épais: exagérer.
- 7Devenir ivre, s’enivrer.
- 8Se salir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beurrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du pain beurré.
Une tartine beurrée.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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