cincho
The verdict
“cincho” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Faja ancha, de cuero o de otra materia, con que se suele ceñir y abrigar el estómago.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cincho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsĩnʲt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cincho” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cincho is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsĩnʲt͡ʃo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cincho in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 cincho, spelled C-I-N-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faja ancha, de cuero o de otra materia, con que se suele ceñir y abrigar el estómago.
- 2Cinturón (prenda de vestir).
- 3Cinturón (funda de la espada).
- 4Aro de hierro con que se aseguran o refuerzan barriles, ruedas, maderos ensamblados, edificios, etc.
- 5Pleita de esparto que forma el contorno de la encella.
- 6Porción de arco saliente en el intradós de una bóveda en cañón.
- 7Especie de cerco elevado que suele hacerse en la tapa del casco a las caballerías.
- 8Cincha.
- 9Molde cuadrado usado para fabricar queso.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cincho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-I-N-C-H-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsĩnʲt͡ʃo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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