buscar

//buʃ.ˈkaɾ// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,484

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

buscar is aPortuguesenoun. It means: meio de transporte (cadeira de braços fixada sobre uma roda de motocicleta ou semelhante) Pronounced /buʃ.ˈkaɾ/. It ranks #1,484 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bancar and basear.

Key facts for buscar
PropertyValue
Headwordbuscar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/buʃ.ˈkaɾ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,484
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of buscar in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for buscar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /buʃ.ˈkaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,484 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "meio de transporte (cadeira de braços fixada sobre uma roda de motocicleta ou semelhante)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for buscar, with forms such as "bbuscar", "bsucar", and "bucsar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bancar", "basear", "burlar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is buscar, spelled B-U-S-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    meio de transporte (cadeira de braços fixada sobre uma roda de motocicleta ou semelhante)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbuscar,bsucar,bucsar,busacr,buscarr,busccar,buscra,busscar,ubscar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buscar

Misspelling Variants of "buscar"

bbuscar7bsucar6bucsar6busacr6buscarr7busccar7buscra6busscar7
Misspelling Variants of "buscar"

Frequency rank: #1,484 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "buscar"?
"buscar" is spelled B-U-S-C-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /buʃ.ˈkaɾ/.
What does "buscar" mean?
As a noun, "buscar" means: meio de transporte (cadeira de braços fixada sobre uma roda de motocicleta ou semelhante)
What words are commonly confused with "buscar"?
"buscar" is commonly confused with "bancar", "basear", "burlar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "buscar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "buscar" is /buʃ.ˈkaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "buscar" come from?
"buscar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.