buscar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#720
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
buscar is aSpanishverb. It means: Esforzarse por encontrar o hallar algo o a alguien; intentar establecer dónde está. Pronounced [busˈkaɾ]. It ranks #720 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with busco and buscará.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buscar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [busˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buscar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [busˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #720 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for buscar, with forms such as "bbuscar", "bsucar", and "bucsar". 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, "busco", "buscará", "buscaron", 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 buscar, spelled B-U-S-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Esforzarse por encontrar o hallar algo o a alguien; intentar establecer dónde está.
- 2Hacer lo posible o necesario para obtener o conseguir algo.
- 3Pasar por una persona para llevarla a otro lugar.
- 4Llamar a una persona.
- 5Crear o causar una situación que produce cierto resultado, especialmente relacionado con enojo, riña o contrariedad.
- 6Robar o hurtar con engaños, de modo ratero y astuto, con mañas o artimañas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbuscar,bsucar,bucsar,busacr,buscarr,busccar,buscra,busscar,ubscar,vuscar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buscar
Misspelling Variants of "buscar"
Frequency rank: #720 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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