butchery

Other forms of butchery

plural

butcheries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about butchery

What does butchery mean?

butchery means "a building where animals are butchered". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butchery?

butchery has 3 syllables: but-che-ry. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʊtʃɚi/.

What is another word for butchery?

Close synonyms include abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse, butchering, slaughter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butchery a common word?

butchery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.