Botafogo
The verdict
“Botafogo” is uncommon French (frequency #76,375 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,375
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Rio de Janeiro, au Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-botafogo · Botafogo · French
Botafogo · rank #76,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boucar
Nearest frequency peer: Boucar (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Botafogo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boardwalk
boardwalk
23,631 corpus weight
- bog
bog
23,629 corpus weight
- Botafogo
Botafogo
23,626 corpus weight
- Boucar
Boucar
23,625 corpus weight
- bouteiller
bouteiller
23,624 corpus weight
- boutoir
boutoir
23,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Botafogo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Botafogo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Botafogo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Botafogo is uncommon French at frequency #76,375 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Botafogo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Botafogo, spelled B-O-T-A-F-O-G-O.
Definition
- 1Quartier de Rio de Janeiro, au Brésil.
- 2Club sportif basé dans ce quartier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Botafogo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Brésilien de 23 ans quitte Botafogo pour rejoindre la formation rhodanienne, où il a signé un contrat de quatre ans et demi.
Après avoir sorti la tête de la zone rouge à l’issue d’un succès (1-4) à Clermont à la 33ᵉ journée, l’OL subit cinq points de pénalité de la part de la LFP pour avoir fait appel à 17 joueurs extracommunautaires en provenance de Botafogo rien que sur la phase retour du championnat.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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