cacharro
[kaˈt͡ʃaro]
The verdict
“cacharro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,424 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,424
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vasija o recipiente, tosco y a veces de cerámica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cacharro · cacharro · Spanish
cacharro · rank #55,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH bálticos
Nearest frequency peer: bálticos (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cacharro”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- burka
burka
44,580 corpus weight
- buscare
buscare
44,579 corpus weight
- bálticos
bálticos
44,578 corpus weight
- cacharro
cacharro
44,577 corpus weight
- cafeteria
cafeteria
44,575 corpus weight
- caigamos
caigamos
44,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cacharro” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacharro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt͡ʃaro] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cacharro” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cacharro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,424 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈt͡ʃaro]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cacharro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cacharro, spelled C-A-C-H-A-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Vasija o recipiente, tosco y a veces de cerámica.
- 2Vehículo o aparato viejo y destartalado.
- 3Objeto de poco valor o pequeño, con frecuencia de uso casero.
- 4Incidente ligero o situación inesperada, a veces cómica.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cacharro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préstame mil pesos que me pasó un cacharro.
Lo más cacharro fue que pagaron con tres millones de billetes falsos.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).