gacho
[ˈgat͡ʃo]
The verdict
“gacho” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,968 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #66,968
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Doblado hacia la tierra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈgat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gacho” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gacho is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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.
gacho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is gacho, spelled G-A-C-H-O.
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.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gacho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-C-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgat͡ʃo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.