chicha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,660
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chicha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bebida alcohólica de baja graduación fabricada por los aborígenes americanos masticando maíz u otros productos vegetales, y escupiendo lo masticado en un recipiente, para que fermente con ayuda de ... Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃa]. Often confused with China and chico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chicha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,660 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chicha, with forms such as "cchicha", "chciha", and "chhicha". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "China", "chico", "choca", 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 chicha, spelled C-H-I-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bebida alcohólica de baja graduación fabricada por los aborígenes americanos masticando maíz u otros productos vegetales, y escupiendo lo masticado en un recipiente, para que fermente con ayuda de bacterias que degradan los azúcares obtenidos del almidón por la acción de la ptialina contenida en la saliva. Este método actualmente está proscrito por motivos de higiene.
- 2Por extensión, nombre de varias bebidas alcohólicas de baja graduación alcohólica o completamente analcohólicas a partir de maíz, frutas u otros productos vegetales.
- 3Por analogía, bebida obtenida de frutas molidas o exprimidas.
- 4Bebida espesa elaborada a base de leche y arroz que se suele servir aderezada con leche condensada y canela en polvo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchicha,chciha,chhicha,chicah,chiccha,chichha,chihca,cihcha,hcicha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "chicha"
Frequency rank: #19,660 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: