gaucho
/ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/
"gaucho" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gaucho” is uncommon English (frequency #65,915 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,915
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cowboy of the South American pampas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gaucho · gaucho · English
gaucho · rank #65,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,915
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gara
Nearest frequency peer: Gara (-2 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 “gaucho”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fusarium
fusarium
34,094 corpus weight
- Gaas
Gaas
34,093 corpus weight
- galvanize
galvanize
34,089 corpus weight
- Gara
Gara
34,088 corpus weight
- gaucho
gaucho
34,086 corpus weight
- gelling
gelling
34,084 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gaucho” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaucho |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gaucho” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gaucho is uncommon English at frequency #65,915 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gaucho, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin. The correct English form is gaucho, spelled G-A-U-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1A cowboy of the South American pampas.
- 2A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaucho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.
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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