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Is butterfly a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word butterfly is a Scrabble US word. The word butterfly is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is butterfly a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word butterfly is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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Is butterfly a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word butterfly is a Words With Friends word. The word butterfly is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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9-letter words (1 found)

BUTTERFLY,

8-letter words (1 found)

FLUTTERY,

7-letter words (5 found)

BRUTELY,BUTLERY,BUTTERY,FLUTTER,UTTERLY,

6-letter words (15 found)

BELFRY,BURLEY,BUTLER,BUTTER,BUTTLE,FLEURY,FLUTER,FLUTEY,FRETTY,RUBEFY,TETRYL,TREBLY,TUFTER,TURTLE,UBERTY,

5-letter words (43 found)

BERYL,BETTY,BLERT,BLUER,BLUET,BLUEY,BLURT,BRULE,BRUTE,BUFTY,BURET,BURLY,BUTLE,BUTTE,BUTTY,BUTYL,BUYER,FELTY,FERLY,FLEUR,FLUEY,FLUTE,FLUTY,FLUYT,FLYER,FLYTE,FYTTE,LEFTY,LUTER,REBUT,REBUY,REFLY,RUBEL,RUBLE,RUTTY,TREYF,TRULY,TUBER,TUFTY,TURFY,TUYER,TYLER,UTTER,

4-letter words (57 found)

BELT,BLET,BLEY,BLUE,BLUR,BREY,BRUT,BURL,BURY,BUTE,BUTT,BYRE,BYRL,BYTE,FELT,FETT,FLEY,FLUB,FLUE,FRET,FUEL,FURL,FURY,FYLE,LEFT,LUBE,LURE,LUTE,LYRE,LYTE,REFT,RELY,RUBE,RUBY,RULE,RULY,RYFE,TELT,TERF,TREF,TRET,TREY,TRUE,TRYE,TUBE,TUFT,TULE,TURF,TYER,TYRE,TYTE,YBET,YELT,YETT,YUFT,YULE,YURT,

3-letter words (48 found)

BEL,BET,BEY,BRU,BUR,BUT,BUY,BYE,EFT,ELF,ELT,ERF,FER,FET,FEU,FEY,FLU,FLY,FRY,FUB,FUR,LET,LEU,LEY,LUR,LYE,REB,REF,RET,RUB,RUE,RUT,RYE,RYU,TEF,TEL,TET,TRY,TUB,TUT,TYE,UEY,ULE,URB,URE,UTE,YER,YET,

2-letter words (15 found)

BE,BY,EF,EL,ER,ET,FE,FU,FY,RE,TE,UR,UT,YE,YU,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 186 words from butterfly according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of butterfly

butterfly

Etymology

From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter +‎ fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.

An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”).

Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌtə(ɹ)flaɪ/
    • (US, Canada) IPA(key): [ˈbʌɾɚflaɪ]
    • (UK) IPA(key): [ˈbʌtəflaɪ]

Noun

butterfly (plural butterflies)

  2. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
  3. (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
  5. (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
  6. Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
  7. (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
    I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
  8. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
  9. (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
  10. (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
  11. (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
  12. A person who changes partners frequently.

Synonyms

  • (flying insect): lep

Hypernyms

  • (flying insect): pollinator

Derived terms

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Verb

butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)

  1. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
  2. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
  3. (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.

See also

  • caterpillar
  • flutterby
  • moth
  • Appendix:Animals
  • Appendix:English collective nouns

References

Anagrams

  • flutterby

Danish

Noun

butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)

  1. bowtie

Inflection


Source: wiktionary.org