butins
\by.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“butins” is uncommon French (frequency #87,405 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,405
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de butin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-butins · butins · French
butins · rank #87,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,405
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Burgonde
Nearest frequency peer: Burgonde (-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 « butins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brossant
brossant
12,601 corpus weight
- Burgonde
Burgonde
12,597 corpus weight
- butins
butins
12,596 corpus weight
- butternut
butternut
12,595 corpus weight
- buttons
buttons
12,594 corpus weight
- béguines
béguines
12,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « butins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | butins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « butins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
butins is uncommon French at frequency #87,405 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de butin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for butins, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is butins, spelled B-U-T-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de butin.
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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