chacal
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,458
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chacal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mamífero omnívoro de tamaño mediano del género Canis, parecido al lobo, nativo de partes tropicales del viejo mundo. Pronounced [t͡ʃaˈkal]. Often confused with chica and Checa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chacal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃaˈkal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chacal is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃaˈkal]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,458 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chacal, with forms such as "cahcal", "cchacal", and "chaacl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chica", "Checa", "chapa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is chacal, spelled C-H-A-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mamífero omnívoro de tamaño mediano del género Canis, parecido al lobo, nativo de partes tropicales del viejo mundo.
- 2Individuo cruel y violento.
- 3Dícese del hombre heterosexual que mantiene una relación sexual o amorosa a escondidas con un hombre homosexual.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahcal,cchacal,chaacl,chacall,chaccal,chacla,chcaal,chhacal,hcacal
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chacal
Misspelling Variants of "chacal"
Frequency rank: #36,458 in Spanish
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