busca
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#782
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
busca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de buscar. Pronounced [ˈbuska]. It ranks #782 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bush and busco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | busca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbuska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for busca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbuska]. Corpus data places it at rank #782 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for busca, with forms such as "bbusca", "bsuca", and "bucsa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bush", "busco", "buses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is busca, spelled B-U-S-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de buscar.
- 2Proceso y resultado de seleccionar y recoger, entre escombros, desperdicios o basura, los materiales o cosas que pueden aprovecharse o reciclarse.
- 3Tropa de cazadores, monteros y perros, que recorre el monte para levantar la caza.
- 4Especie de perro que caza solo o sirve para seguir la caza.
- 5Empleo o trabajo remunerado que se toma o hace de forma ocasional o como complemento extra para el ingreso económico.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbusca,bsuca,bucsa,busac,buscca,bussca,ubsca,vusca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for busca
Misspelling Variants of "busca"
Frequency rank: #782 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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