gacho
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈgat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Doblado hacia la tierra.
- 2Referido a animales vacunos: Que tiene un cuerno o ambos con la curva hacia abajo.
- 3Referido a caballerías: Con el hocico hacia el pecho, a diferencia de los despapados (que separan más la cabeza del pecho).
- 4Feo, malo, que no agrada.
- 5Con la espalda curvada hacia abajo: con giba, chepa o joroba.
- 6Con algún defecto físico, en particular en las orejas y los párpados.
- 7Molesto, desafortunado, triste o inoportuno.
Frequency rank: #66,968 in Spanish
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