busão
/bu.'saŋ/
The verdict
“busão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,570 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,570
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verme, minhoca
Corpus desk
Index PT-busao · busão · Portuguese
busão · rank #56,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,570
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH caloria
Nearest frequency peer: caloria (+4 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 “busão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bachelor
bachelor
43,458 corpus weight
- baobá
baobá
43,455 corpus weight
- ber
ber
43,447 corpus weight
- busão
busão
43,431 corpus weight
- caloria
caloria
43,427 corpus weight
- capotar
capotar
43,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “busão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | busão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.'saŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “busão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
busão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,570 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bu.'saŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "verme, minhoca".
No generated misspelling entries exist for busão in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is busão, spelled B-U-S-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1verme, minhoca
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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