buttons
\by.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“buttons” is uncommon French (frequency #87,407 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,407
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de button.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buttons · buttons · French
buttons · rank #87,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,407
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH butternut
Nearest frequency peer: butternut (-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 « buttons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- cabotin
cabotin
12,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buttons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buttons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buttons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buttons is uncommon French at frequency #87,407 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de button.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for buttons, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 buttons, spelled B-U-T-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de button.
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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