Which to use
“bocado” and “botão” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,269
- “bocado” frequency rank
- #4,293
- “botão” frequency rank
- 10562
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bocado | botão |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | porção de alimento que se mete na boca de uma só vez | dispositivo encontrado em máquinas usado - pressionando - para mudar o estado da máquina, começar ou parar um processo |
Where the eye mixes bocado and botão
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. bocado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against botão's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: bocado vs botão
A purely visual mix-up. bocado (/bu.ˈka.du/) and botão (/bu.ˈtɐ̃w̃/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10562, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bocado is recorded at frequency rank #6,269, classified as anoun, pronounced /bu.ˈka.du/. botão is at rank #4,293, tagged as anoun, pronounced /bu.ˈtɐ̃w̃/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 10562, this pair ranks #62,501 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of bocado vs botão
Shared letters: bo. Private to "bocado": acd. Private to "botão": tã.
"bocado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "botão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- bocado ← bbocado · bcoado · boacdo · bocaddo · bocaod · boccado · bocdao · obcado
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bocado" for "botão" ever safe?
Frequency check: "bocado" vs "botão" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "bocado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "botão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #62,501 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bocado" and "botão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "borrão vs botão". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #62,501 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.