butter: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with B · ends with R
Meaning of butter
noun
- uncountable, usually
A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- uncountable, usually
Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
Example: peanut butter
- uncountable, usually
Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- attributive, slang, sometimes, uncountable, usually
Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
Listed forms: butters, butta, buttah.
Source: Wiktionary — butter.
verb
- transitive
To spread butter on.
Example: Butter the toast.
To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- obsolete, slang, transitive
To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
Listed forms: butters, buttering, buttered, butta, buttah.
Source: Wiktionary — butter.
noun
Someone or something that butts.
Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
Listed forms: butters.
Source: Wiktionary — butter.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is butter in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of butter
B(3) + U(1) + T(1) + T(1) + E(1) + R(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of butter
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from butter
28 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in butter. Showing up to 24, longest first.