# chico vs child

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### chico
*noun · frequency rank #22,032*
A Latin-American boy; a Latino.

### 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/chico-vs-child