chicano
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,508
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
chicano is anSpanishadj. It means: Se dice del inmigrante mexicano nacionalizado norteamericano, y de sus descendientes, en los Estados Unidos Pronounced [t͡ʃiˈkano]. Often confused with chico and chino.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈkano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chicano is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃiˈkano]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,508 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chicano, with forms such as "cchicano", "chciano", and "chhicano". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "chico", "chino", "chicas", 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 chicano, spelled C-H-I-C-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dice del inmigrante mexicano nacionalizado norteamericano, y de sus descendientes, en los Estados Unidos
- 2Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con el inmigrante mexicano nacionalizado norteamericano, y de sus descendientes, en los Estados Unidos
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchicano,chciano,chhicano,chiacno,chicanno,chicaon,chiccano,chicnao,cihcano,hcicano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chicano
Misspelling Variants of "chicano"
Frequency rank: #49,508 in Spanish
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