gabacho
Spanish, noun/ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/
gabacho is spelled G-A-B-A-C-H-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 101,597th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gabacho is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a villager from the Pyrenees” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does gabacho mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Pyrenean
- 2
Gallic, frenchified
noun
- 1
masculinea villager from the Pyrenees
- 2
Spaincolloquialmasculinea Frenchman, a frog, Frenchy, baguette
- 3
colloquialmasculineany white man (of any nation)
- 4
Mexicocolloquialderogatorymasculineforeigner, gringo, especially from the United States
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Propio, natural de o relativo a Francia. 2. Propio, natural de o relativo a la región pirenaica fronteriza con este país. 3. Propio, natural de o relativo a los Estados Unidos. 4. Aplícase al palomo o paloma de casta grande y calzado de plumas.
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 gabacho
- gabacha feminine
- gabachos masculine plural
- gabachas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gabacho?
- /ɡaˈbat͡ʃo/
- [ɡaˈβ̞a.t͡ʃo]
- [gaˈβ̞at͡ʃo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gabacho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gabacho in Spanish?
gabacho appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).