Which to use
“buse” and “butée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,321
- “buse” frequency rank
- #46,043
- “butée” frequency rank
- 78364
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | buse | butée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Oiseau de proie, rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, du genre Buteo, au plumage brun tacheté et que l’on considère comme dépourvu d’intelligence et dont il existe plusieurs espèces en Europe. | Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. |
Where the eye mixes buse and butée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: buse vs butée
A purely visual mix-up. buse (\byz\) and butée (\by.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
buse is recorded at frequency rank #32,321, classified as anoun, pronounced \byz\. butée is at rank #46,043, tagged as anoun, pronounced \by.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 78364, this pair ranks #25,940 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of buse vs butée
Shared letters: beu. Private to "buse": s. Private to "butée": té.
"buse" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "butée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- buse ← bbuse · bsue · bues · busse · ubse
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "buse" and "butée" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "buse" or "butée" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "buse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "butée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #25,940 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "buse" and "butée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "buses vs butée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #25,940 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.