buscar
Spanish, verb/busˈkaɾ/
buscar is spelled B-U-S-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written Spanish, the 724th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buscar is a Spanish verb meaning “to seek, search for, look for, try to find, to scour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Esforzarse por encontrar o hallar algo o a alguien; intentar establecer dónde está”.
What does buscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to seek, search for, look for, try to find, to scour
- 2
to look up (in a search engine, dictionary, etc.)
- 3
to fetch, get, pick up
- 4
colloquialto bring on (oneself), to ask for
Lo siento, pero te lo buscaste.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Esforzarse por encontrar o hallar algo o a alguien; intentar establecer dónde está. 2. Hacer lo posible o necesario para obtener o conseguir algo. 3. Pasar por una persona para llevarla a otro lugar. 4. Llamar a una persona.
verb: 1. Ir en una dirección.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of buscar
- busco first-person present singular
- busqué first-person preterite singular
- buscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- buscando gerund
- buscada feminine participle past
- buscados masculine participle past
- buscadas feminine participle past
- buscas indicative informal present
- buscás indicative informal present
- busca indicative present singular
- buscamos first-person indicative plural
- buscáis indicative plural present
- buscan indicative plural present
- buscaba first-person imperfect indicative
- buscabas imperfect indicative second-person
- buscábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- buscabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buscar?
- /busˈkaɾ/
- [busˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to buscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is buscar in Spanish?
buscar appears 120 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).