botina
The verdict
“botina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,578 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,578
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - calçado rústico com cano curto
Corpus desk
Index PT-botina · botina · Portuguese
botina · rank #83,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,578
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH cado
Nearest frequency peer: cado (+7 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “botina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- awe
awe
16,461 corpus weight
- bastidor
bastidor
16,446 corpus weight
- beliscão
beliscão
16,439 corpus weight
- botina
botina
16,423 corpus weight
- cado
cado
16,416 corpus weight
- calhambeque
calhambeque
16,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “botina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “botina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
botina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,578 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "calçado rústico com cano curto".
No generated misspelling entries exist for botina in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is botina, spelled B-O-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1calçado rústico com cano curto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how botina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eles culpam o governo por terem sido obrigados a "pendurar a botina antes da hora", como diz João.
This word in other languages
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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