Which to use
“Butão” and “button” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,076
- “Butão” frequency rank
- #23,230
- “button” frequency rank
- 42306
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Butão | button |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Reino do Butão: pequeno reino sem contato com o mar; faz fronteira com a China, a norte, e com a Índia, a sul | botão |
Letter map: Butão vs button
Shared letters muted; letters that set Butão and button apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Pair insight - Butão / button
Butão and button are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Butão is recorded at frequency rank #19,076, classified as anoun. button is at rank #23,230, tagged as anoun, pronounced /bʌtən/ ouvir ^(fonte ?).
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 42306, this pair ranks #23,496 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of Butão vs button
Shared letters: botu. Private to "Butão": ã. Private to "button": n.
"Butão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "button" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- button ← bbutton · btuton · buton · butotn · buttno · buttonn · ubtton
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "Butão" and "button" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "Butão" vs "button" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've compared "Butão" and "button". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "Butão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "button" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #23,496 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Butão" and "button" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bulbo vs Butão". 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 #23,496 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.