gaucho
[ˈgawt͡ʃo]
The verdict
“gaucho” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitante rural de las llanuras del Cono Sur, desde el sur de Brasil a la Patagonia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-gaucho · gaucho · Spanish
gaucho · rank #22,374 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,374
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH genialidad
Nearest frequency peer: genialidad (+1 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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “gaucho”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- fulano
fulano
77,631 corpus weight
- Gaby
Gaby
77,629 corpus weight
- gaucho
gaucho
77,627 corpus weight
- genialidad
genialidad
77,626 corpus weight
- genital
genital
77,625 corpus weight
- gestion
gestion
77,624 corpus weight
What this shows “gaucho” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “gaucho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gaucho (IPA [ˈgawt͡ʃo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,374 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gaucho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El gaucho es altanero, como que sabe domar un caballo salvaje y atravesar la pampa al galope en él. Es valiente como todo el que tiene que luchar con las fieras y abatir la res que le ha de servir de alimento.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).