botulismo

noun

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The verdict

“botulismo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,290 among 2,073 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,290
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,073
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forma de intoxicação alimentar rara mas potencialmente fatal, causada por uma toxina produzida pela bactéria Clostridium botulinum, presente no solo e em alimentos contaminados e mal conservados

Key facts for botulismo
PropertyValue
Headwordbotulismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#67,290
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “botulismo” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). botulismo lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

botulismo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,290 among 2,073 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forma de intoxicação alimentar rara mas potencialmente fatal, causada por uma toxina produzida pela bactéria Clostridium botulinum, presente no solo e em alimentos contaminados e mal conservados".

botulismo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is botulismo, spelled B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    forma de intoxicação alimentar rara mas potencialmente fatal, causada por uma toxina produzida pela bactéria Clostridium botulinum, presente no solo e em alimentos contaminados e mal conservados

Synonyms

alantíase

This word in other languages

botulism(English)botulismo(Español)botulisme(Français)Botulismus(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "botulismo"?
"botulismo" is spelled B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M-O.
What does "botulismo" mean?
As a noun, "botulismo" means: forma de intoxicação alimentar rara mas potencialmente fatal, causada por uma toxina produzida pela bactéria Clostridium botulinum, presente no solo e em alimentos contaminados e mal conservados
What language does "botulismo" come from?
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Using “botulismo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list