# chica vs child

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### chica
*noun · frequency rank #38,332*
A Latin-American girl; a Latina.

### child
*noun · IPA /tʃaɪld/ · frequency rank #500*
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chica-vs-child