botafumeiro
Letters
11 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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botafumeiro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: recipiente no que se queima incenso e serve para afumar, odorizar nos ritos religiosos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botafumeiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for botafumeiro is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for botafumeiro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is botafumeiro, spelled B-O-T-A-F-U-M-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1recipiente no que se queima incenso e serve para afumar, odorizar nos ritos religiosos.
- 2elogio exagerado, propaganda excessiva
- 3bufas-de-lobo, fungo, cogumelo do gênero Lycoperdon
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