cacho
[ˈkat͡ʃo]
The verdict
“cacho” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,294
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pedazo o porción de alguna cosa, en especial de límites más bien difusos o amorfa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cacho · cacho · Spanish
cacho · rank #15,294 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,294
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH brava
Nearest frequency peer: brava (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cacho”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Belgrado
Belgrado
84,710 corpus weight
- boxeador
boxeador
84,709 corpus weight
- brava
brava
84,708 corpus weight
- cacho
cacho
84,707 corpus weight
- cachorro
cachorro
84,706 corpus weight
- cagado
cagado
84,705 corpus weight
What this shows “cacho” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cacho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cacho (IPA [ˈkat͡ʃo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,294 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cacho, with forms such as "accho", "caccho", and "cachho". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cho", "caso", "caro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cacho, spelled C-A-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Pedazo o porción de alguna cosa, en especial de límites más bien difusos o amorfa.
- 2Por extensión, espacio de tiempo relativamente corto.
- 3Juego de azar que se juega con sólo media baraja de naipes.
- 4Mano o racimo de bananas.
- 5Chiste, historia o frase para hacer reír.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cacho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esperame un cacho, en seguida regreso.
Hasta le sacaron un cacho (chiste) al tal Cliford, que ni escuche ese man... Oye, tú sí que te sabes cualquier cantidad de cachos, chismes, historias, de todo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accho
- caccho
- cachho
- cacoh
- cahco
- ccacho
- ccaho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cacho - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cacho", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).