busca
Portuguese, noun
busca is spelled B-U-S-C-A (5 letters) and appears 126 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 774th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Busca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “searching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of buscar. With an accent, buscá is a different word: “apocopic form of buscar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de buscar”.
What does busca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesearching
- 2
femininequest
- 3
feminineresearch
- 4
femininerummage
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
apocopic form of buscar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação de buscar 2. pesquisa 3. investigação 4. esforço para se conseguir algo
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 busca
- buscas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to busca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is busca in Portuguese?
busca appears 126 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).