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busco

Portuguese, verb/ˈbus.ku/

busco is spelled B-U-S-C-O (5 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Busco is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of buscar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does busco mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of buscar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ladrão

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.

How do you pronounce busco?

  • Brazil /ˈbus.ku/
  • /ˈbuʃ.ku/
  • Portugal /ˈbuʃ.ku/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is busco in Portuguese?

busco appears 2.9 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).

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