gaucho
[ˈgawt͡ʃo]
The verdict
“gaucho” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #22,374 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #22,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitante rural de las llanuras del Cono Sur, desde el sur de Brasil a la Patagonia.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaucho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgawt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gaucho” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gaucho is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgawt͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,374 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Habitante rural de las llanuras del Cono Sur, desde el sur de Brasil a la Patagonia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaucho, with forms such as "agucho", "gacuho", and "gauccho". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "guacho", "gauchos", "Gacha", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is gaucho, spelled G-A-U-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Habitante rural de las llanuras del Cono Sur, desde el sur de Brasil a la Patagonia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agucho,gacuho,gauccho,gauchho,gaucoh,gauhco,ggaucho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaucho - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “gaucho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-U-C-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈgawt͡ʃo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “guacho” - see the side-by-side comparison. gaucho vs guacho
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.