botafumeiro

noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

botafumeiro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: recipiente no que se queima incenso e serve para afumar, odorizar nos ritos religiosos.

Key facts for botafumeiro
PropertyValue
Headwordbotafumeiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

botafumeiro is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    recipiente no que se queima incenso e serve para afumar, odorizar nos ritos religiosos.
  2. 2
    elogio exagerado, propaganda excessiva
  3. 3
    bufas-de-lobo, fungo, cogumelo do gênero Lycoperdon

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "botafumeiro"?
"botafumeiro" is spelled B-O-T-A-F-U-M-E-I-R-O.
What does "botafumeiro" mean?
As a noun, "botafumeiro" means: recipiente no que se queima incenso e serve para afumar, odorizar nos ritos religiosos.
What language does "botafumeiro" come from?
"botafumeiro" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.