butée
French, noun/by.te/
butée is spelled B-U-T-É-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Butée is a French feminine noun meaning “abutment (state of abutting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of buté. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile”.
What does butée mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabutment (state of abutting)
- 2
femininebuttress
- 3
femininestop, stopper
noun
- 1
feminineany plant in the Butea genus
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of buté
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. 2. Massif de pierres destiné à supporter la poussée d'un élément de construction. 3. Massif de pierres aux deux extrémités d’un pont pour résister à la poussée des arches. 4. Accessoire sur un arbre d’hélice solidement fixé à la coque et qui transmet au bateau la poussée de l’hélice.
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 butée
- butées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce butée?
- /by.te/
- \by.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to butée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is butée in French?
butée appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).