bugar
Portuguese, verb/buˈɡa(ʁ)/
bugar is spelled B-U-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bugar is a Portuguese verb meaning “(a computer software) to suffer bugs or other technical problems; to glitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “passar a ser acometido por bugue”.
What does bugar mean in English?
verb
- 1
informal(a computer software) to suffer bugs or other technical problems; to glitch
Meu Facebook bugou.
- 2
colloquial(a person) to get confused or fail to understand something
Essa explicação me bugou.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passar a ser acometido por bugue 2. fazer ter problema de funcionamento falho ou aquilo que deste resulta
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 bugar
- bugo first-person present singular
- buguei first-person preterite singular
- bugado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- bugares infinitive second-person singular
- bugarmos first-person infinitive plural
- bugardes infinitive plural second-person
- bugarem infinitive plural third-person
- bugando gerund
- bugados masculine participle past
- bugada feminine participle past
- bugadas feminine participle past
- bugas indicative present second-person
- buga indicative present singular
- bugamos first-person indicative plural
- bugais indicative plural present
- bugam indicative plural present
- bugava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bugar?
- Brazil /buˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [buˈɡa(h)]
- /buˈɡa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bugar in Portuguese?
bugar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).