botulismo

noun

The verdict

“botulismo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,290 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,290
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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

Corpus desk

Index PT-botulismo · botulismo · Portuguese

botulismo · rank #67,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,290
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH cadafalso

Nearest frequency peer: cadafalso (+12 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 “botulismo”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “botulismo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for botulismo
PropertyValue
Headwordbotulismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#67,290
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “botulismo” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).botulismocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “cadafalso” (#67,302), “caduco” (#67,303), “carpo” (#67,315). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “botulismo” fica em #67,290. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

botulismo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,290 among 840 “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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how botulismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ele contraiu botulismo depois de comer uma torta de frango comprada numa rotisseria no Cambuci, centro de São Paulo.

Synonyms

alantíase

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.

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
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "botulismo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list