butent
\byt\
The verdict
“butent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,110 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,110
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe buter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-butent · butent · French
butent · rank #55,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,110
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Buchenwald
Nearest frequency peer: Buchenwald (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « butent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brugeois
Brugeois
44,894 corpus weight
- buccal
buccal
44,893 corpus weight
- Buchenwald
Buchenwald
44,892 corpus weight
- butent
butent
44,891 corpus weight
- bénéficiera…
bénéficierait
44,890 corpus weight
- cabas
cabas
44,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « butent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \byt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « butent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
butent is uncommon French at frequency #55,110 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \byt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for butent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is butent, spelled B-U-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe buter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe buter.
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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