chinche
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#62,908
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chinche is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cimex lectularius) Insecto hemíptero nocturno de 4 a 5 mm de largo, con forma ovalada y aplastada, que se alimenta de la sangre humana. Abunda en las camas en el verano y en las casas desaseadas. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃĩnʲt͡ʃe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃĩnʲt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chinche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃĩnʲt͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,908 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chinche 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 chinche, spelled C-H-I-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cimex lectularius) Insecto hemíptero nocturno de 4 a 5 mm de largo, con forma ovalada y aplastada, que se alimenta de la sangre humana. Abunda en las camas en el verano y en las casas desaseadas.
- 2Clavo o alfiler pequeño con cabeza grande y chata, utilizado para dibujar o calcar, fijar notas, fotos, etc.
- 3Persona chinchosa.
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Frequency rank: #62,908 in Spanish
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