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bagunça

Portuguese, noun/baˈɡũ.sɐ/

bagunça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “mess, disorder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of bagunçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estado de desordem, baderna”.

What does bagunça mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineinformalmess, disorder

  2. 2

    feminineinformalclutter

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. estado de desordem, baderna 2. festa, festejo

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of bagunça

  • bagunças plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bagunça?

  • Brazil /baˈɡũ.sɐ/
  • Portugal /bɐˈɡũ.sɐ/
  • Portugal [bɐˈɣũ.sɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to bagunça

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bagunça in Portuguese?

bagunça appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).