boto
The verdict
“boto” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,714) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,714
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero da ordem dos cetáceos Inia geoffrensis, nativo da Amazônia e das costas do Atlântico e Pacífico, parecido com um golfinho
Corpus desk
Index PT-boto · boto · Portuguese
boto · rank #17,714 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,714
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bossa
Nearest frequency peer: bossa (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “boto”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bossa
bossa
82,288 corpus weight
- boto
boto
82,287 corpus weight
- cale
cale
82,282 corpus weight
- cape
cape
82,280 corpus weight
- cast
cast
82,278 corpus weight
- cave
cave
82,276 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boto” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boto”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boto is neighbouring look-alikes ("boy", "box", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #17,714 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for boto, with forms such as "bboto", "botto", and "btoo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "but", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is boto, spelled B-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1mamífero da ordem dos cetáceos Inia geoffrensis, nativo da Amazônia e das costas do Atlântico e Pacífico, parecido com um golfinho
- 2odre
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A lenda mais famosa da região diz que nas noites de lua cheia o boto se transforma num rapaz muito bonito, vestido de branco e de chapéu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboto
- botto
- btoo
- obto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).