butter

1. 1.

   spread butter on

   “butter bread”

   Broadercover

Other forms of butter

plural

butters·

past tense

butterred·

present participle

butterring·

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 butter

What does butter mean?

butter means "an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butter?

butter has 2 syllables: but-ter. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɚ/.

Is butter a common word?

butter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.