cho
[ˈt͡ʃo]
The verdict
“cho” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,095) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,095
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjección para hacer que se detenga un animal, particularmente uno de tiro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cho · cho · Spanish
cho · rank #14,095 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,095
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cheques
Nearest frequency peer: cheques (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cho”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- centenar
centenar
85,909 corpus weight
- Ceuta
Ceuta
85,908 corpus weight
- cheques
cheques
85,907 corpus weight
- cho
cho
85,906 corpus weight
- chuck
chuck
85,905 corpus weight
- Cochabamba
Cochabamba
85,903 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cho” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cho”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cho is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈt͡ʃo]. Frequency #14,095 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cho in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "cu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cho, spelled C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Interjección para hacer que se detenga un animal, particularmente uno de tiro.
- 2Interjección usada para ahuyentar animales.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).