ch
[ˈt͡ʃe]
The verdict
“ch” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,997) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,997
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dígrafo que fue considerado cuarta letra del alfabeto español entre 1803 y 2010. Su nombre es che y generalmente representa un sonido consonante africado postalveolar sordo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ch · ch · Spanish
ch · rank #10,997 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,997
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH celu
Nearest frequency peer: celu (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “ch”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- casta
casta
89,007 corpus weight
- causada
causada
89,006 corpus weight
- celu
celu
89,005 corpus weight
- ch
ch
89,004 corpus weight
- champions
champions
89,003 corpus weight
- chavismo
chavismo
89,002 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ch” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | ch |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ch”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ch is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced [ˈt͡ʃe]. Frequency #10,997 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Dígrafo que fue considerado cuarta letra del alfabeto español entre 1803 y 2010. Su nombre es che y generalmente representa un sonido consonante africado postalveolar sordo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ch, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "cu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ch, spelled C-H.
Definition
- 1Dígrafo que fue considerado cuarta letra del alfabeto español entre 1803 y 2010. Su nombre es che y generalmente representa un sonido consonante africado postalveolar sordo.
This word in other languages
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.