buggy
Portuguese, noun/ˈbu.ɡi/
buggy is spelled B-U-G-G-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,330th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buggy is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dune buggy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does buggy mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedune buggy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ver bugue
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 buggy
- buggies plural
- buggys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buggy?
- Brazil /ˈbu.ɡi/
- Brazil /ˈbɐ.ɡi/
- Portugal /ˈbɐ.ɡɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buggy in Portuguese?
buggy appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).