chancla

/[ˈt͡ʃãŋkla]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,452

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chancla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Zapato viejo y roto, con el talón gastado. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla].

Key facts for chancla
PropertyValue
Headwordchancla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt͡ʃãŋkla]
Letters7
Frequency rank#55,452
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chancla in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chancla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,452 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chancla in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 chancla, spelled C-H-A-N-C-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Zapato viejo y roto, con el talón gastado.
  2. 2
    Calzado playero abierto, que se sujeta al pie con un par de tirantes que van desde el espacio entre los dedos pulgar e índice hasta el talón. Es fabricado industrialmente con materiales plásticos.
  3. 3
    Zapato ligero de tela o cuero, con suela plana sin tacón, usado habitualmente dentro del hogar.
  4. 4
    Mujer que siente atracción sexual por otras mujeres.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #55,452 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chancla"?
"chancla" is spelled C-H-A-N-C-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla].
What does "chancla" mean?
As a noun, "chancla" means: Zapato viejo y roto, con el talón gastado.
How do you pronounce "chancla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chancla" is [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chancla" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.