buscón
Spanish, noun/busˈkon/
buscón is spelled B-U-S-C-Ó-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 105,087th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buscón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “whore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does buscón mean in English?
adjective
- 1
searching
- 2
cunning
- 3
slutty
noun
- 1
masculinewhore
- 2
masculinerogue
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que busca, en particular de modo reiterado o insistente. 2. Se dice de alguien que hurta rateramente o estafa con malicia, engaño y socaliña. Ratero, 3. Se dice de quien suele generar o atizar discordia, peleas, pendencias, camorra y animadversión.
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 buscón
- buscona feminine
- buscones masculine plural
- busconas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buscón?
- /busˈkon/
- [busˈkõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buscón in Spanish?
buscón appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).