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cancha

noun

cancha is spelled C-A-N-C-H-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cancha means “A toasted grain or grains of corn, a traditional snack in Peru” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cancha is canchas.

How many letters and syllables are in cancha?

Letters6: C-A-N-C-H-A
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cancha?

Cancha appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of cancha

  • canchas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cancha mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A toasted grain or grains of corn, a traditional snack in Peru.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cancha come from?

Borrowed from Spanish cancha, borrowed from Quechua kamcha.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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