facho
Spanish, noun
facho is spelled F-A-C-H-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 46,380th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Rioplatense and Chilean form of facha (“fash”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fachar. With an accent, fachó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of fachar”.
What does facho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineRioplatense and Chilean form of facha (“fash”)
adjective
- 1
derogatoryalternative form of facha (“fash”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fachar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of fachar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Fascista. 2. Persona que simpatiza con las ideologías políticas de derecha o ultraderecha.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of facho
- fachos plural
- facha feminine
- fachas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to facho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facho in Spanish?
facho appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).