Which to use
“buster” and “butée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #31,383
- “buster” frequency rank
- #46,043
- “butée” frequency rank
- 77426
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | buster | butée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | (principalement dans la construction buster of…) Casseur, destructeur, exploseur de… dans le sens personne qui casse, détruit, explose un type d'objet donné. | Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. |
Where the eye mixes buster and butée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. buster runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against butée's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: buster vs butée
A purely visual mix-up. buster (\ˈbʌs.tə(ɹ)\) 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 77426, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
buster is recorded at frequency rank #31,383, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈbʌs.tə(ɹ)\. 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 77426, this pair ranks #28,410 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of buster vs butée
Shared letters: betu. Private to "buster": rs. Private to "butée": é.
"buster" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "butée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- buster ← bbuster · bsuter · busetr · busster · busterr · bustre · bustter · butser
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "buster" and "butée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "buster" or "butée" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "buster" and "butée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "buster" 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 #28,410 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "buster" 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 #28,410 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.