chasco
Spanish, noun
chasco is spelled C-H-A-S-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 49,460th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chasco is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “disappointment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of chascar. With an accent, chascó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of chascar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Burla o engaño que se hace a alguno”.
What does chasco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedisappointment
me dio un chasco
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of chascar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of chascar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Burla o engaño que se hace a alguno. 2. Decepción que causa a veces un suceso contrario a lo que se esperaba.
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 chasco
- chascos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chasco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chasco in Spanish?
chasco appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).