botulismo
[bot̪uˈlismo]
The verdict
“botulismo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toxoinfección bacteriana producida por el consumo de alimentos contaminados por una toxina nerviosa producida por la bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
Corpus desk
Index ES-botulismo · botulismo · Spanish
botulismo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botulismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bot̪uˈlismo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
botulismo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bot̪uˈlismo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toxoinfección bacteriana producida por el consumo de alimentos contaminados por una toxina nerviosa producida por la bacteria Clostridium botulinum.".
botulismo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is botulismo, spelled B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Toxoinfección bacteriana producida por el consumo de alimentos contaminados por una toxina nerviosa producida por la bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.