cancho
Spanish, noun
cancho is spelled C-A-N-C-H-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 147,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cancho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “large rock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of canchar. With an accent, canchó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of canchar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Peñasco de gran tamaño”.
What does cancho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelarge rock
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of canchar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of canchar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peñasco de gran tamaño. 2. Lugar cubierto de peñascos.
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 cancho
- canchos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cancho in Spanish?
cancho appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).