cholo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,521
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cholo is anSpanishadj. It means: De ascendencia amerindia o mestizo de la misma y blanco. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃolo]. Often confused with col and coo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cholo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃolo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cholo is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃolo]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,521 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cholo, with forms such as "ccholo", "chholo", and "chloo". 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, "col", "coo", "cómo", 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 cholo, spelled C-H-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De ascendencia amerindia o mestizo de la misma y blanco.
- 2Por extensión, nativo o procedente del Perú o Bolivia.
- 3Que tiene muy pocos recursos económicos o es de baja extracción.
- 4De origen o residencia campesina.
- 5Falso, fraudulento, trucho.
- 6(Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) Ave marina de la familia de los cormoranes que habita las costas de Chile y Perú. Mide unos 68cm, es de color negro con un brillo que va de verdoso a azulado; la garganta, el pecho y vientre son blancos; patas rosadas; pico con base rojiza; zona sin plumas rojiza y un círculo verdoso alrededor del ojo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccholo,chholo,chloo,chool,cohlo,hcolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cholo
Misspelling Variants of "cholo"
Frequency rank: #27,521 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: