The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt.
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Butt
/bʌt/
Synonyms for "butt" (458 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (92)
Noun(23 words)
abutabut onadjoinadvanceafterglowafterimageaimanklearticulatearticulationassaultbacksidebaconbalancebarrelbattenbatten downbe contiguousbe in contactbear
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bear uponbearingbehindbitbitter endboltboostborderborder onbottombottom dollarboundarybowlbreechbuckbucklebullbulldozebumpbump againstbuntbutt againstbutt endbuttocksbuttonby-endby-purposebywordbyword of reproachcandle endscarton of cigarettescervixchaffcheekchipchitterlingschumpchunkcigcigarettecigarette buttcigarette case
Strong matches (137)
claspcleatclinchclipclippingclosurecochon de laitcollopcome oncommunicateconjoinconnectconnecting linkconnecting rodconnectioncouplingcracklingscramcroupcrowd
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crumbcruppercutcuttingdebrisdeck of cigarettesderisionderrieredestinationdetritusdigdollopdovetaildrivedriving forceduffdupeeasy markelbowembraceendend in viewextremeextremityfagfag endfair gamefall guyfannyfarthest boundfat backfigure of funfilingsfinal causefishflitchfoolforceforwardfossilfragmentgamegammongazingstockgliding jointgoadgoalgoatgobgobbetgudgeongullgunhamham steakhaslethasphaunchesheadheadcheesehind endhinderhingehinged jointhiphitchhogsheadholdoverhookhunkhurtlehuskhuskshustleimpelimpulsioninterfaceinterfereinterruptintrudejabjamjambonjambonneaujestjestingstockjogjogglejoinjoiningjointjokejoltjostlejumping off placejumping-off placejuncture
Noun(17 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (229)
kegkibitzkneeknucklelardlatchlaughingstockleavingsleftoverleftoverslie bylimitlinelinklocklumpmarchmarkmeddlemeet
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mitermockmockerymodicummoietymonkeymorselmortisemotive powermovemugnailnatesneckneighbornibnudgeobjectobject in mindobjectiveodds and endsoffscouringsortsparingparingsparticlepatsypedalpegpicnic hampiecepieds de cochonpigpigeonpile drivepilgarlicpillpinpipepivotpivot jointpointpokepoleporkporkpieposteriorpratpresspressurepreyprodpropelpropellingpropelmentpropulsionpulsionpunchpursuitpushpushingquarryquintainrabbetragragsramram downrasherrattlerearrear endreason for beingrefuserelicsremainderremainsremnantresidueresiduumrestrivetroachrollrowrubbishruinruinsrumprunrun againstsalt porksawdustscarfscoopscouringscouringsscrapscrapsscrewseamsewshadowshakeshardshavingshavingsshivershouldershoveshovingshredshuntside of baconsimplesitting duckskewerslicesliversmall hamsmithereensmokesnacksnapsnatchsnipsnipesnippetsowbellyspareribssplintersportstand bystaplestickstitchstockstrawstressstubstubblestumpsuckersuckling pigsurvivalsuturesweepsweep alongsweepingssymphysistacktagtag endtailtail endtamptargettatterteleologythrustthuletie rodtiptoggletoggle jointtouchtoytracetreadletrolltrottertrotterstrundletunultima thuleultimate aimunionvergeverge uponvestigevictimwasteweaklingwedgeweldwristzipper
Noun(21 words)
keisterlaughingstocknatespratramramsrear endromanian word stockrumpscapegoatseatsternstockstoogestubtailtail endtooshietuntuns
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Verb(1 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: backside, buttocks, posterior, rear, target.
- Sentence evidence is available for butt, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "butt".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "butt"
Keep "butt" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "butt" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "butt", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "butt" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
More specific
12 entriesCollocations
10 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
255 translations across 92 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- boude noun (buttocks)
Albanian
2 entries- byth noun (buttocks)
- bythë noun (buttocks)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄρρος noun (buttocks)
Arabic
4 entries- طيز noun (buttocks)
- طيز noun (buttocks)
- قعر noun (buttocks)
- مُؤَخَّرَة noun (buttocks)
Armenian
3 entries- հետույք noun (buttocks)
- տուտուզ noun (buttocks)
- քամակ noun (buttocks)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dal noun (buttocks)
- sağrı noun (buttocks)
Bashkir
2 entries- күт noun (buttocks)
- һөҙөшөү verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
Belarusian
4 entries- ду́па noun (buttocks)
- за́дніца noun (buttocks)
- по́па noun (buttocks)
- се́даўка noun (buttocks)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гъз noun (buttocks)
- ду́пе noun (buttocks)
- за́дник noun (buttocks)
- приклад noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Catalan
1 entries- natja noun (buttocks)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قن noun (buttocks)
Chinese
1 entries- 尻川 noun (buttocks)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 噼噼 noun (buttocks)
- 囉柚 /啰柚 noun (buttocks)
- 屎忽 noun (buttocks)
- 屎窟 noun (buttocks)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 屁股 noun (buttocks)
- 臀 noun (buttocks)
- 臀部 noun (buttocks)
Czech
4 entries- hýždě noun (buttocks)
- pažba noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- prdel noun (buttocks)
- zadek noun (buttocks)
Danish
3 entries- bagdel noun (buttocks)
- rumpe noun (buttocks)
- røv noun (buttocks)
Dutch
4 entries- achterste noun (buttocks)
- achterwerk noun (buttocks)
- kont noun (buttocks)
- reet noun (buttocks)
Egyptian
2 entries- pH-w&y noun (buttocks)
- x*p:d-w-y- noun (buttocks)
Esperanto
2 entries- postaĵo noun (buttocks)
- pugo noun (buttocks)
Estonian
4 entries- ahter noun (buttocks)
- istmik noun (buttocks)
- pepu noun (buttocks)
- tagument noun (buttocks)
Faroese
3 entries- rassur noun (buttocks)
- reyv noun (buttocks)
- rumpa noun (buttocks)
Finnish
4 entries- nuppi noun (cap in lacrosse stick)
- peffa noun (buttocks)
- pehva noun (buttocks)
- peppu noun (buttocks)
French
3 entries- crosse noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- cul noun (buttocks)
- derrière noun (buttocks)
Galician
4 entries- cacha noun (buttocks)
- cu noun (buttocks)
- nádega noun (buttocks)
- traseiro noun (buttocks)
Georgian
3 entries- დუნდულა noun (buttocks)
- ტრაკი noun (buttocks)
- უკანალი noun (buttocks)
German
4 entries- Arsch noun (buttocks)
- Gesäß noun (buttocks)
- Hintern noun (buttocks)
- Kolben noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Greek
3 entries- οπίσθια noun (buttocks)
- πισινός noun (buttocks)
- ποπός noun (buttocks)
Greenlandic
2 entries- eqqoq noun (buttocks)
- nullut noun (buttocks)
Hawaiian
2 entries- ʻōkole noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- ʻōkole noun (buttocks)
Hebrew
4 entries- טוסיק noun (buttocks)
- ישבן noun (buttocks)
- עכוז noun (buttocks)
- תחת noun (buttocks)
Hindi
2 entries- कूल्हा noun (buttocks)
- नितंब noun (buttocks)
Hungarian
4 entries- bütü noun (end of something, often distinguished from other end)
- far noun (buttocks)
- fenék noun (buttocks)
- ülep noun (buttocks)
Icelandic
2 entries- afturendi noun (buttocks)
- rass noun (buttocks)
Ido
1 entries- kulo noun (buttocks)
Inari Sami
1 entries- pottâ noun (buttocks)
Indonesian
1 entries- bokong noun (buttocks)
Ingrian
4 entries- peppo noun (buttocks)
- pers noun (buttocks)
- perä noun (buttocks)
- santukka noun (buttocks)
Irish
2 entries- buta noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- buta noun (unit of volume)
Italian
2 entries- culo noun (buttocks)
- sedere noun (buttocks)
Japanese
1 entries- お尻 noun (buttocks)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- kadera noun (buttocks)
Korean
1 entries- 엉덩이 noun (buttocks)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сан noun (buttocks)
Lao
1 entries- ກົ້ນ noun (buttocks)
Latin
2 entries- clūnis noun (buttocks)
- cūlus noun (buttocks)
Limburgish
1 entries- vot noun (buttocks)
Macedonian
3 entries- газ noun (buttocks)
- задник noun (buttocks)
- кундак noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Malay
1 entries- punggung noun (buttocks)
Mongolian
2 entries- хонго noun (buttocks)
- өгзөг noun (buttocks)
Māori
3 entries- kumu noun (buttocks)
- pōike noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- reke noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Northern Altai
1 entries- кӧден noun (buttocks)
Northern Sami
2 entries- bahta noun (buttocks)
- čurti noun (buttocks)
Norwegian
3 entries- bak noun (buttocks)
- rumpe noun (buttocks)
- ræv noun (buttocks)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kolbe noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kolbe noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Occitan
2 entries- cuol noun (buttocks)
- tafanari noun (buttocks)
Okinawan
1 entries- 尻 noun (buttocks)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سوسمك verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
Pacoh
1 entries- adươr noun (buttocks)
Persian
3 entries- سرین noun (buttocks)
- کون noun (buttocks)
- کپل noun (buttocks)
Pichinglis
1 entries- bàta noun (buttocks)
Polish
4 entries- dupa noun (buttocks)
- kolba noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- tyłek noun (buttocks)
- zadek noun (buttocks)
Portuguese
4 entries- bumbum noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- bunda noun (buttocks)
- cu noun (buttocks)
- nádegas noun (buttocks)
Powhatan
1 entries- -sket noun (buttocks)
Romanian
4 entries- cur noun (buttocks)
- fund noun (buttocks)
- pat noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- patul puștii noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Russian
4 entries- жо́па noun (buttocks)
- за́дница noun (buttocks)
- зад noun (buttocks)
- по́па noun (buttocks)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- pèire noun (buttocks)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dȕpe noun (buttocks)
- gùzica noun (buttocks)
- gúza noun (buttocks)
- kùndak noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
Silesian
1 entries- rzić noun (buttocks)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- põtt noun (buttocks)
Slovak
3 entries- prdel noun (buttocks)
- riť noun (buttocks)
- zadok noun (buttocks)
Slovene
2 entries- rit noun (buttocks)
- zadnjica noun (buttocks)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кӧт noun (buttocks)
Southern Sami
2 entries- ravve noun (buttocks)
- råvve noun (buttocks)
Spanish
4 entries- culamen noun (buttocks)
- culo noun (buttocks)
- gol noun (limit, bound, goal)
- ligado noun (limit, bound, goal)
Swahili
1 entries- matako noun (buttocks)
Swedish
4 entries- bak noun (buttocks)
- kolv noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- rumpa noun (buttocks)
- röv noun (buttocks)
Tagalog
4 entries- dulo noun (buttocks)
- kulata noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- manggo noun (larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end)
- puwit noun (buttocks)
Tamil
3 entries- குண்டி noun (buttocks)
- பிட்டம் noun (buttocks)
- பொச்சு noun (buttocks)
Telugu
1 entries- పిరుదుల noun (buttocks)
Thai
2 entries- ก้น noun (buttocks)
- ตูด noun (buttocks)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྐུབ noun (buttocks)
Turkish
4 entries- kalça noun (buttocks)
- kıç noun (buttocks)
- süsmek verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
- toslamak verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
Turkmen
1 entries- otyrýer noun (buttocks)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ду́па noun (buttocks)
- жо́па noun (buttocks)
- зад noun (buttocks)
- по́па noun (buttocks)
Uzbek
1 entries- dumba noun (buttocks)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mông noun (buttocks)
- đít noun (buttocks)
Welsh
2 entries- Welsh: pendolcio verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
- tolcio verb ((intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head)
Western Apache
2 entries- bikʼai noun (buttocks)
- bikʼai dahncha noun (buttocks)
Wiradjuri
1 entries- bubul noun (buttocks)
Wolof
1 entries- meego noun (buttocks)
Yiddish
3 entries- אחור noun (buttocks)
- אחוריים noun (buttocks)
- תּחת noun (buttocks)
Sample sentences
45 total sentences available.
Hey, we're trying to have a serious discussion here so I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't butt in so irresponsibly.
Source: tatoeba (34356)
There's no need for you to butt in. Just let him do this on his own.
Source: tatoeba (64330)
There are things I'd like to say but to butt in now would be what they call uncouth.
Source: tatoeba (326755)
Showing 4 of 45 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "butt"?
Closest matches include backside, buttocks, posterior, rear, target.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "butt"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.