chunga

/[ˈt͡ʃũŋga]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,631

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chunga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dicho o acción destinados a divertirse o a reírse de alguien, generalmente de forma ligera y festiva. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃũŋga].

Key facts for chunga
PropertyValue
Headwordchunga
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt͡ʃũŋga]
Letters6
Frequency rank#60,631
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chunga in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chunga is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃũŋga]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,631 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chunga 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 chunga, spelled C-H-U-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dicho o acción destinados a divertirse o a reírse de alguien, generalmente de forma ligera y festiva.
  2. 2
    (Astrocaryum standleyanum) Tipo de palma que alcanza hasta quince metros de altura, tallo con espinas blancuzcas, hojas de hasta cuatro metros de longitud y flores de color crema y de olor intenso. Se distribuye desde el sudeste de Costa Rica hasta el noreste de Ecuador; en las tierras bajas del Pacífico, en Colombia.
  3. 3
    Marca o raya sobre el suelo que sirve para marcar la distancia desde donde se lanzan las canicas en el juego.
  4. 4
    Pequeño hueco u hoyo donde debe caer la canica para ganar puntos en dicho juego.
  5. 5
    Acción y efecto de tomar mucho licor; borrachera.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #60,631 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chunga"?
"chunga" is spelled C-H-U-N-G-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡ʃũŋga].
What does "chunga" mean?
As a noun, "chunga" means: Dicho o acción destinados a divertirse o a reírse de alguien, generalmente de forma ligera y festiva.
How do you pronounce "chunga"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chunga" is [ˈt͡ʃũŋga]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chunga" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.