botões

//bo.'tois// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,628

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

botões is aPortuguesenoun. It means: bardana, (Arctium lappa), flor e infrutescência da mesma planta, que prende no cabelo e na roupa Pronounced /bo.'tois/. It ranks #9,628 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bote and boto.

Key facts for botões
PropertyValue
Headwordbotões
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/bo.'tois/
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,628
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of botões in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for botões is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bo.'tois/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,628 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bardana, (Arctium lappa), flor e infrutescência da mesma planta, que prende no cabelo e na roupa".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for botões, with forms such as "bbotões", "boteõs", and "bottões". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bote", "boto", "boots", 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 botões, spelled B-O-T-Õ-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bardana, (Arctium lappa), flor e infrutescência da mesma planta, que prende no cabelo e na roupa

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbotões,boteõs,bottões,botõess,botõse,boõtes,btoões,obtões

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for botões

Misspelling Variants of "botões"

bbotões7boteõs6bottões7botõess7botõse6boõtes6btoões6obtões6
Misspelling Variants of "botões"

Frequency rank: #9,628 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "botões"?
"botões" is spelled B-O-T-Õ-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is /bo.'tois/.
What does "botões" mean?
As a noun, "botões" means: bardana, (Arctium lappa), flor e infrutescência da mesma planta, que prende no cabelo e na roupa
What words are commonly confused with "botões"?
"botões" is commonly confused with "bote", "boto", "boots". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "botões"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "botões" is /bo.'tois/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "botões" come from?
"botões" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.