buga
[ˈbuɣ̞a]
The verdict
“buga” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #50,750 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,750
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona que siente atracción sexual por personas del otro sexo biológico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbuɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buga” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buga is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbuɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,750 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Persona que siente atracción sexual por personas del otro sexo biológico.".
No misspelling variants are generated for buga in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is buga, spelled B-U-G-A.
Definition
- 1Persona que siente atracción sexual por personas del otro sexo biológico.
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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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “buga”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-G-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbuɣ̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.