ButãovsbuttonWhat's the difference?

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.

5 ch
Butão
6 ch
button

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

  • buttonbbutton · btuton · buton · butotn · buttno · buttonn · ubtton

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Butão" and "button" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "Butão" vs "button" - which ranks higher?
"Butão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,076 in our Portuguese list, against #23,230 for "button". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list