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botafogo

noun

botafogo is spelled B-O-T-A-F-O-G-O: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, botafogo means “A dance step in samba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of botafogo is botafogos.

How many letters and syllables are in botafogo?

Letters8: B-O-T-A-F-O-G-O
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is botafogo?

Botafogo appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of botafogo

  • botafogos plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does botafogo mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A dance step in samba.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does botafogo come from?

From Botafogo in Brazil.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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