bucho
/ˈbu.ʃu/
The verdict
“bucho” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,932 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,932
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estômago dos mamíferos e dos peixes
Corpus desk
Index PT-bucho · bucho · Portuguese
bucho · rank #50,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,932
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH botafoguense
Nearest frequency peer: botafoguense (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “bucho”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bisneto
bisneto
49,078 corpus weight
- bombordo
bombordo
49,072 corpus weight
- botafoguense
botafoguense
49,071 corpus weight
- bucho
bucho
49,069 corpus weight
- caballero
caballero
49,063 corpus weight
- cabaça
cabaça
49,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bucho” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bucho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbu.ʃu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bucho” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bucho is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,932 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbu.ʃu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
bucho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is bucho, spelled B-U-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1estômago dos mamíferos e dos peixes
- 2estômago dos homens
- 3mulher muito feia e/ou velha
- 4barriga de pessoas, típico do nordeste do Brasil
- 5paio feito de cartilagens e ossos tenros de porco
- 6estômago do porco, estômago das pessoas
- 7bochecho
- 8buraco onde entra o eixo na roda do carro de bois
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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