rebuscado

//Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du// adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,070

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rebuscado is anPortugueseadj. It means: palavra ou termo de difícil compreensão Pronounced /Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du/.

Key facts for rebuscado
PropertyValue
Headwordrebuscado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du/
Letters9
Frequency rank#75,070
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for rebuscado is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #75,070 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rebuscado in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 rebuscado, spelled R-E-B-U-S-C-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    palavra ou termo de difícil compreensão
  2. 2
    que se rebuscou, se tornou a buscar
  3. 3
    apurado com excessivo esmero; requintado

Frequency rank: #75,070 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rebuscado"?
"rebuscado" is spelled R-E-B-U-S-C-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is /Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du/.
What does "rebuscado" mean?
As an adj, "rebuscado" means: palavra ou termo de difícil compreensão
How do you pronounce "rebuscado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rebuscado" is /Rɨ.buʃ.ˈka.du/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rebuscado" come from?
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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.