bute
\byt\
The verdict
“bute” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,983
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de maréchal-ferrant qui sert à couper la corne des sabots des chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bute · bute · French
bute · rank #13,983 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,983
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Budapest
Nearest frequency peer: Budapest (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Brice
Brice
86,020 corpus weight
- Budapest
Budapest
86,019 corpus weight
- bute
bute
86,018 corpus weight
- bêta
bêta
86,017 corpus weight
- cachette
cachette
86,016 corpus weight
- cadence
cadence
86,015 corpus weight
What this shows « bute » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bute (IPA \byt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,983 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bute, with forms such as "bbute", "btue", and "buet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bye", "buy", "buts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bute, spelled B-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument de maréchal-ferrant qui sert à couper la corne des sabots des chevaux.
- 2Échafaud.
- 3Massacre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbute
- btue
- buet
- butte
- ubte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bute - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).