cachimba
[kaˈt͡ʃĩmba]
The verdict
“cachimba” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #81,755 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,755
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pipa tosca o rudimentaria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachimba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt͡ʃĩmba] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachimba” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cachimba is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈt͡ʃĩmba]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,755 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cachimba in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cachimba, spelled C-A-C-H-I-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Pipa tosca o rudimentaria.
- 2Extremo de un cigarro de hoja.
- 3Jícara alargada elaborada de la calabaza vinatera.
- 4Artefacto similar a la pipa con forma alargada, dotado de varios tubos flexibles a través de los cuales varios fumadores pueden inhalar el humo de la combustión de algún narcótico o sabor
- 5Lámpara antigua, la cual utilizaba petróleo para encenderse. ^([cita requerida])
- 6Choza. Refugio nocturno en las carreteras para que descansen quienes conducen camiones y tráilers y, sobre todo, para venta de sustancias adictivas (cocaína), café, refrescos, alimentos, gasolina e incluso camiones y prostitución.
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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Using “cachimba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-C-H-I-M-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈt͡ʃĩmba] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.