buço
/ˈbu.su/
The verdict
“buço” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,150 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,150
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeiros cabelos finos e curtos, que nascem no lábio superior do homem
Corpus desk
Index PT-buco · buço · Portuguese
buço · rank #76,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,150
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bugio
Nearest frequency peer: bugio (-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 “buço”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- botica
botica
23,859 corpus weight
- bugiganga
bugiganga
23,854 corpus weight
- bugio
bugio
23,853 corpus weight
- buço
buço
23,851 corpus weight
- Carles
Carles
23,843 corpus weight
- Catalunya
Catalunya
23,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “buço” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbu.su/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “buço” em português
Rare enough to double-check
buço is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,150 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbu.su/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
buço doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is buço, spelled B-U-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1primeiros cabelos finos e curtos, que nascem no lábio superior do homem
- 2pelos finos e curtos no lábio superior de algumas mulheres
- 3cão, cachorro (para fêmeas, usa-se em geral o diminutivo irregular: bucica)
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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