chiche
[ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃe]
The verdict
“chiche” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,774 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,774
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juguete.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chiche · chiche · Spanish
chiche · rank #52,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chilla
Nearest frequency peer: chilla (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “chiche”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- changing
changing
47,230 corpus weight
- chequera
chequera
47,229 corpus weight
- chiche
chiche
47,227 corpus weight
- chilla
chilla
47,226 corpus weight
- chingado
chingado
47,225 corpus weight
- cicatrizaci…
cicatrización
47,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “chiche” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “chiche” en español
Rare enough to double-check
chiche is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,774 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chiche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is chiche, spelled C-H-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Juguete.
- 2Cosa pequeña, bonita y de fina hechura.
- 3Pechos de la mujer.
- 4Cosas que pueden llegar a ser utilizables, que son de pequeño porte y baratas.
- 5Adorno navideño, usualmente esférico, que se cuelga del árbol de Navidad.
- 6Cosa muy bien cuidada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Generalmente, nos pasaba un par de insectos de juguete y esos autos rascas que venían como de a veinte en una caja. El Omega Supreme nunca. Ese era su chiche."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).