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cacho

Spanish, noun

cacho is spelled C-A-C-H-O (5 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,293rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cacho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “piece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cachar. With an accent, cachó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cachar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pedazo o porción de alguna cosa, en especial de límites más bien difusos o amorfa”.

What does cacho mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialmasculinepiece

  2. 2

    Latin-Americamasculinehorn

  3. 3

    colloquialmasculineshit, lemon, bomb (defective, inadequate or useless item or person)

  4. 4

    colloquialmasculinenuisance, some annoying task or work

  5. 5

    colloquialmasculinejoke, lie

noun

  1. 1

    masculinechub (fish)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of cachar

verb

as cachó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of cachar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pedazo o porción de alguna cosa, en especial de límites más bien difusos o amorfa. 2. Por extensión, espacio de tiempo relativamente corto. 3. Juego de azar que se juega con sólo media baraja de naipes. 4. Mano o racimo de bananas.

noun: 1. Cuerno de animal. 2. Cubilete o vaso realizado en este material. 3. Juego de azar que utiliza un cubilete y cinco dados. 4. Cigarrillo de marihuana.

noun: 1. Pez del orden de los malacopterigios abdominales, de 15 a 20 centímetros de largo, comprimido, de color obscuro y con la cola mellada y de color blanquizco como las aletas. Es muy común en el Tajo, el Ebro y otros ríos caudalosos de España.

adjective: 1. Variante de gacho.

adjective: 1. Cansado, fatigado. 2. Enfermo.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cacho

  • cachos plural
  • cacha feminine
  • cachas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to cacho

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cacho in Spanish?

cacho appears 3.5 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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