Which to use
“bustes” and “butée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #35,839
- “bustes” frequency rank
- #46,043
- “butée” frequency rank
- 81882
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bustes | butée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de buste. | Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. |
Where the eye mixes bustes and butée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses bustes with butée
A purely visual mix-up. bustes (\byst\) 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 81882, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bustes is recorded at frequency rank #35,839, classified as anoun, pronounced \byst\. 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 81882, this pair ranks #17,861 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bustes vs butée
Shared letters: betu. Private to "bustes": s. Private to "butée": é.
"bustes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "butée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- bustes ← bbustes · bsutes · busets · busstes · bustess · bustse · busttes · butses
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bustes" for "butée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "bustes" or "butée"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "bustes" and "butée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "bustes" 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 #17,861 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bustes" 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 #17,861 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.