Butt
\bʊt\
The verdict
“Butt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,624) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,624
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flet, fléteau Platichthys flesus
Corpus desk
Index FR-butt · Butt · French
Butt · rank #46,624 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,624
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Burlington
Nearest frequency peer: Burlington (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Butt »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Bruckner
Bruckner
53,380 corpus weight
- brushing
brushing
53,379 corpus weight
- Burlington
Burlington
53,378 corpus weight
- Butt
Butt
53,377 corpus weight
- béant
béant
53,376 corpus weight
- bénédictine
bénédictine
53,375 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Butt » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Butt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʊt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Butt »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Butt is neighbouring look-alikes ("buy", "buzz", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bʊt\. Frequency #46,624 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Flet, fléteau Platichthys flesus".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Butt, with forms such as "bbutt", "btut", and "ubtt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "buy", "buzz", "button", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Butt, spelled B-U-T-T.
Definition
- 1Flet, fléteau Platichthys flesus
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Butt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Elbe wurde früher viel Butt gefangen. — On trouvait auparavant beaucoup de fléteaux dans l’Elbe
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbutt
- btut
- ubtt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Butt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Butt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).