Butter
\ˈbʊ.tɛr\
The verdict
“Butter” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,182
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beurre (aliment).
Corpus desk
Index FR-butter · Butter · French
Butter · rank #38,182 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,182
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burgos
Nearest frequency peer: burgos (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Butter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- broussailles
broussailles
61,822 corpus weight
- buanderie
buanderie
61,821 corpus weight
- burgos
burgos
61,820 corpus weight
- Butter
Butter
61,819 corpus weight
- buvette
buvette
61,818 corpus weight
- Calder
Calder
61,816 corpus weight
What this shows « Butter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Butter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbʊ.tɛr\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Butter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Butter (IPA \ˈbʊ.tɛr\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,182 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Beurre (aliment).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Butter, with forms such as "bbutter", "btuter", and "butetr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "button", "buttes", "buzzer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Butter, spelled B-U-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Beurre (aliment).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Butter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(...) ich liebe Rührei, am liebsten mit salziger Butter auf getoastetem Graubrot und viel Schnittlauch obendrauf.
In einem separaten Topf Butter schmelzen, Mehl hinzufügen und anschwitzen. Langsam und unter ständigem Rühren die Mehlschwitze mit dem Sud ablöschen und unter Rühren aufkochen lassen, bis die Soße bindet. (...) die Kapern samt Saft zur Soße geben und nach Belieben mit Salz und Pfeffer abschmecken.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbutter
- btuter
- butetr
- butterr
- buttre
- ubtter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Butter - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).