butant
\by.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“butant” is uncommon French (frequency #89,493 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,493
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui soutient la poussée d’une voûte, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-butant · butant · French
butant · rank #89,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,493
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bureautiques
Nearest frequency peer: bureautiques (-2 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 « butant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brotteaux
brotteaux
10,514 corpus weight
- brouilly
brouilly
10,513 corpus weight
- bureautiques
bureautiques
10,510 corpus weight
- butant
butant
10,508 corpus weight
- Bédier
Bédier
10,506 corpus weight
- Bénichou
Bénichou
10,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « butant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \by.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « butant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
butant is uncommon French at frequency #89,493 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \by.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui soutient la poussée d’une voûte, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for butant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is butant, spelled B-U-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui soutient la poussée d’une voûte, etc.
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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