Which to use
“butée” and “buttes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,043
- “butée” frequency rank
- #35,412
- “buttes” frequency rank
- 81455
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | butée | buttes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. | Pluriel de butte. |
Where the eye mixes butée and buttes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. butée runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against buttes's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: butée vs buttes
A purely visual mix-up. butée (\by.te\) and buttes (\byt\) 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 81455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
butée is recorded at frequency rank #46,043, classified as anoun, pronounced \by.te\. buttes is at rank #35,412, tagged as anoun, pronounced \byt\.
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 81455, this pair ranks #18,711 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of butée vs buttes
Shared letters: betu. Private to "butée": é. Private to "buttes": s.
"butée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "buttes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- buttes ← bbuttes · btutes · butes · butets · buttess · buttse · ubttes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "butée" and "buttes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "butée" vs "buttes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "butée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "buttes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #18,711 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "butée" and "buttes" 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 #18,711 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.