butternut

Other forms of butternut

plural

butternuts·

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 butternut

What does butternut mean?

butternut means "North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butternut?

butternut has 3 syllables: but-ter-nut. The stress falls on "but".

What is another word for butternut?

Close synonyms include butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea. 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 butternut a common word?

butternut 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.