butes
\byt\
The verdict
“butes” is uncommon French (frequency #95,642 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,642
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-butes · butes · French
butes · rank #95,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,642
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH busset
Nearest frequency peer: busset (-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 « butes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BSC
BSC
4,364 corpus weight
- Burgaud
Burgaud
4,361 corpus weight
- busset
busset
4,360 corpus weight
- butes
butes
4,359 corpus weight
- buvettes
buvettes
4,358 corpus weight
- cadastres
cadastres
4,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « butes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « butes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
butes is uncommon French at frequency #95,642 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \byt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bute.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for butes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is butes, spelled B-U-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bute.
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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