butanol
Portuguese, noun/bu.taˈnɔw/
butanol is spelled B-U-T-A-N-O-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Butanol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “butanol (any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “álcool (C₄H₉OH) que tem quatro carbonos e uma ligação simples”.
What does butanol mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebutanol (any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. álcool (C₄H₉OH) que tem quatro carbonos e uma ligação simples
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of butanol
- butanóis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce butanol?
- Brazil /bu.taˈnɔw/
- Brazil [bu.taˈnɔʊ̯]
- Portugal /bu.tɐˈnɔl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to butanol
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is butanol in Portuguese?
butanol appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).