buté
French, adjective
buté is spelled B-U-T-É (4 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written French, the 13,986th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buté is a French adjective meaning “stubborn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of buter. Without its accent, bute is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entêté, à l’esprit borné”.
What does buté mean in English?
adjective
- 1
stubborn
verb
- 1
past participle of buter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument de maréchal-ferrant qui sert à couper la corne des sabots des chevaux. 2. Échafaud. 3. Massacre.
adjective: 1. Entêté, à l’esprit borné. 2. Qui a une buture, en parlant du chien.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of buté
- butée feminine
- butés masculine plural
- butées feminine plural
- butes plural
- butte
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to buté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is buté in French?
buté appears 3.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).