butterball

Other forms of butterball

plural

butterballs·

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 butterball

What does butterball mean?

butterball means "a rotund individual". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butterball?

butterball has 3 syllables: but-ter-ball. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɚˌbɔl/.

What is another word for butterball?

Close synonyms include fatso, fatty, fat person, roly-poly, bufflehead. 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 butterball a common word?

butterball 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.

What rhymes with butterball?

24 words rhyme with butterball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.