butiner
\by.ti.ne\
The verdict
“butiner” is uncommon French (frequency #72,142 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,142
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire du butin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-butiner · butiner · French
butiner · rank #72,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,142
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burrito
Nearest frequency peer: burrito (-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 « butiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bruitage
bruitage
27,863 corpus weight
- burrito
burrito
27,860 corpus weight
- butiner
butiner
27,859 corpus weight
- bénissent
bénissent
27,856 corpus weight
- Béotie
Béotie
27,855 corpus weight
- cadrages
cadrages
27,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « butiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \by.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « butiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
butiner is uncommon French at frequency #72,142 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \by.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for butiner in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is butiner, spelled B-U-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire du butin.
- 2Se déplacer de fleur en fleur pour en recueillir le pollen.
- 3Obtenir de proche en proche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how butiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les soldats ont bien butiné dans ce pays-là.
Les abeilles butinent les acacias.
This word in other languages
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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