butterfly

1. A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.

2. A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure: a social butterfly.

3. Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings.

4. Sports A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.

5. Sports A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.

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1. To split almost entirely and spread apart .

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1. To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
butterfly	17	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
be	4
by	7
ef	5
el	2
er	2
et	2
fe	5
re	2
te	2
ut	2
ye	5

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
bel	5
bet	5
bey	8
bur	5
but	5
buy	8
bye	8
eft	6
elf	6
fer	6
fet	6
feu	6
fey	9
flu	6
fly	9
fry	9
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fur	6
let	3
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ley	6
lye	6
reb	5
ref	6
ret	3
rub	5
rue	3
rut	3
rye	6
ryu	6
tel	3
tet	3
try	6
tub	5
tut	3
tye	6
urb	5
ute	3
yet	6

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
belt	6
blet	6
blue	6
blur	6
brut	6
burl	6
bury	9
bute	6
butt	6
byre	9
byrl	9
byte	9
felt	7
fley	10
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fret	7
fuel	7
furl	7
fury	10
left	7
lube	6
lure	4
lute	4
lyre	7
reft	7
rely	7
rube	6
ruby	9
rule	4
ruly	7
tref	7
tret	4
trey	7
true	4
tube	6
tuft	7
tule	4
turf	7
tyer	7
tyre	7
yett	7
yule	7
yurt	7

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
beryl	10
bluer	7
bluet	7
bluey	10
blurt	7
brute	7
buret	7
burly	10
butle	7
butte	7
butty	10
butyl	10
buyer	10
felty	11
ferly	11
flute	8
fluty	11
fluyt	11
flyer	11
flyte	11
fytte	11
lefty	11
rebut	7
rebuy	10
refly	11
rubel	7
ruble	7
rutty	8
treyf	11
truly	8
tuber	7
tufty	11
turfy	11
tuyer	8
utter	5

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
belfry	14
burley	11
butler	8
butter	8
buttle	8
fleury	12
fluter	9
flutey	12
fretty	12
tetryl	9
trebly	11
tufter	9
turtle	6

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
brutely	12
butlery	12
buttery	12
flutter	10
utterly	10

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
fluttery	14

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
butterfly	17