chicha
/ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃə/
"chicha" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chicha” is uncommon English (frequency #88,199 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,199
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A fermented beverage from South and Central America, most commonly made from maize, grapes or apples.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chicha · chicha · English
chicha · rank #88,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,199
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chikara
Nearest frequency peer: chikara (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “chicha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cheesing
cheesing
11,806 corpus weight
- Chemnitz
Chemnitz
11,805 corpus weight
- Chesham
Chesham
11,804 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
11,802 corpus weight
- chikara
chikara
11,801 corpus weight
- chillout
chillout
11,800 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chicha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chicha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chicha is uncommon English at frequency #88,199 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A fermented beverage from South and Central America, most commonly made from maize, grapes or apples.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chicha, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish chicha, from Kuna chichab (“corn”). The correct English form is chicha, spelled C-H-I-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1A fermented beverage from South and Central America, most commonly made from maize, grapes or apples.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chicha, from Kuna chichab (“corn”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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