a flight of butterflies
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- angels, birds, doves, goshawks, hawks, herons, pigeons, stairs, swallows, cormorants
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
Subject · Animals → Insects & arachnids
Butterflies
A group of butterflies can be called: flight · flutter · kaleidoscope · rabble · swarm
- Collective nouns
- 5
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Insects & arachnids
- High confidence
- 5
- Book of St Albans
- 0
Collective nouns for butterflies
a flutter of butterflies
A group of butterflies or moths.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
a kaleidoscope of butterflies
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a rabble of butterflies
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- bees, gnats
a swarm of butterflies
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- ants, bees, beetles, bugs, eels, flies, gnats, grasshoppers, moths, hornets +5 more
- Also spelled
- Swarme (1486)