gacho

/[ˈgat͡ʃo]/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,968

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

gacho is anSpanishadj. It means: Doblado hacia la tierra. Pronounced [ˈgat͡ʃo].

Key facts for gacho
PropertyValue
Headwordgacho
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ˈgat͡ʃo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#66,968
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gacho is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgat͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,968 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Doblado hacia la tierra.
  2. 2
    Referido a animales vacunos: Que tiene un cuerno o ambos con la curva hacia abajo.
  3. 3
    Referido a caballerías: Con el hocico hacia el pecho, a diferencia de los despapados (que separan más la cabeza del pecho).
  4. 4
    Feo, malo, que no agrada.
  5. 5
    Con la espalda curvada hacia abajo: con giba, chepa o joroba.
  6. 6
    Con algún defecto físico, en particular en las orejas y los párpados.
  7. 7
    Molesto, desafortunado, triste o inoportuno.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #66,968 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gacho"?
"gacho" is spelled G-A-C-H-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈgat͡ʃo].
What does "gacho" mean?
As an adj, "gacho" means: Doblado hacia la tierra.
How do you pronounce "gacho"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gacho" is [ˈgat͡ʃo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gacho" 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.