gacho
[ˈgat͡ʃo]
The verdict
“gacho” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,968 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,968
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doblado hacia la tierra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gacho · gacho · Spanish
gacho · rank #66,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,968
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH fútil
Nearest frequency peer: fútil (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “gacho”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- funcionamos
funcionamos
33,039 corpus weight
- fundiendo
fundiendo
33,037 corpus weight
- fusta
fusta
33,036 corpus weight
- fútil
fútil
33,035 corpus weight
- gacho
gacho
33,033 corpus weight
- Geschichte
Geschichte
33,028 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gacho” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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) |
Dónde se sitúa “gacho” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
gacho is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,968 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈgat͡ʃo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
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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