butée

\by.te\

/\by.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“butée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,043
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-butee · butée · French

butée · rank #46,043 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,043
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bussière

Nearest frequency peer: Bussière (-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 « butée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « butée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

butée vs buts
60% similar
butée vs Butt
40% similar
butée vs butin
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for butée
PropertyValue
Headwordbutée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\by.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#46,043
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « butée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.butéese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Bussière » (#46,042), « buvaient » (#46,044), « burnout » (#46,041). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « butée » est au #46,043. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around butée (IPA \by.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,043 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for butée, with forms such as "bbutée", "btuée", and "butee". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "buts", "Butt", "butin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is butée, spelled B-U-T-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile.
  2. 2
    Massif de pierres destiné à supporter la poussée d'un élément de construction.
  3. 3
    Massif de pierres aux deux extrémités d’un pont pour résister à la poussée des arches.
  4. 4
    Accessoire sur un arbre d’hélice solidement fixé à la coque et qui transmet au bateau la poussée de l’hélice.
  5. 5
    Sur quoi on bute, ce qui ressort, dépasse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how butée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est la raison pour laquelle les religions n’ont pas bougé parce qu’elles sont, là, construites sur quelque chose de fort solide qui est, allons-y calmement, que 90 % des humains sont en mauvais termes avec le sexe. La métaphysique tout entière se formalise autour de cette butée.

Synonyms

arrêt

This word in other languages

abutment(English)contrafuerte(Español)Anschlag(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbutée
  • btuée
  • butee
  • buteé
  • buttée
  • buéte
  • ubtée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of butée - 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.

bbutée1btuée2butee1buteé2buttée1buéte2ubtée2
Edit distance from "butée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "butée"?
"butée" is spelled B-U-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \by.te\.
What does "butée" mean?
As a noun, "butée" means: Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile.
What words are commonly confused with "butée"?
"butée" is commonly confused with "buts", "Butt", "butin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "butée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "butée" is \by.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "butée" come from?
"butée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "butée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Carle#46,049brisa#46,036bocca#46,030barak#46,018

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Buddha7 variantsbarrez7 variantsArielle7 variantsArgonne7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list