cachirre
[kaˈt͡ʃire]
The verdict
“cachirre” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Especie de reptil carnívoro que habita los diferentes tipos de cursos de agua dulce, ciénagas y pantanos en el sur de México, Centroamérica y el noroeste de América del Sur. Pueden medir de 1,4 a 2...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachirre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈt͡ʃire] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachirre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cachirre is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈt͡ʃire]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Especie de reptil carnívoro que habita los diferentes tipos de cursos de agua dulce, ciénagas y pantanos en el sur de México, Centroamérica y el noroeste de América del Sur. Pueden medir de 1,4 a 2...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cachirre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cachirre, spelled C-A-C-H-I-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Especie de reptil carnívoro que habita los diferentes tipos de cursos de agua dulce, ciénagas y pantanos en el sur de México, Centroamérica y el noroeste de América del Sur. Pueden medir de 1,4 a 2,5 m de largo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cachirre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-C-H-I-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈt͡ʃire] (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.