botão
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,293
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
botão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: dispositivo encontrado em máquinas usado - pressionando - para mudar o estado da máquina, começar ou parar um processo Pronounced /bu.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #4,293 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bote and boto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for botão is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bu.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,293 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for botão, with forms such as "bbotão", "botoã", and "bottão". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bote", "boto", "both", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 botão, spelled B-O-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dispositivo encontrado em máquinas usado - pressionando - para mudar o estado da máquina, começar ou parar um processo
- 2flor ainda não completamente aberta
- 3objeto usado no vestuário para manter junto extremidades de uma mesma peça em um ponto em que não tem ligação por tecido
- 4elemento gráfico associável a acionamento por interação por parte do usuário ao disparo de uma rotina dentro de um programa de computador
- 5ânus
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbotão,botoã,bottão,boãto,btoão,obtão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for botão
Misspelling Variants of "botão"
Frequency rank: #4,293 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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