botulismo
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
- assiduamente
assiduamente
32,748 corpus weight
- botulismo
botulismo
32,711 corpus weight
- cadafalso
cadafalso
32,699 corpus weight
- caduco
caduco
32,698 corpus weight
- carpo
carpo
32,686 corpus weight
- cassa
cassa
32,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “botulismo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botulismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “botulismo” em português
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
- 1forma 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 exampleThese source excerpts show how botulismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele contraiu botulismo depois de comer uma torta de frango comprada numa rotisseria no Cambuci, centro de São Paulo.
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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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