guacho
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,119
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
guacho is anSpanishadj. It means: Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que ha perdido uno o ambos progenitores. Pronounced [ˈgwat͡ʃo]. Often confused with guapo and guardo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈgwat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guacho is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgwat͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,119 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for guacho, with forms such as "gguacho", "guaccho", and "guachho". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "guapo", "guardo", "Gacha", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 guacho, spelled G-U-A-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un animal, o más raramente de una persona, que ha perdido uno o ambos progenitores.
- 2Por extensión, dicho de una persona, nacido fuera del matrimonio.
- 3Dicho de un objeto que habitualmente se presenta en pares, carente de su pareja.
- 4Dicho de una planta, que ha crecido sin ser plantada.
- 5Dicho de un animal de una especie no doméstica, que por el contacto estrecho con humanos se comporta como una mascota.
- 6Dicho de una persona, de mala intención.
- 7Dicho de una persona, natural o residente en el campo.
- 8Natural del sur de México.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguacho,guaccho,guachho,guacoh,guahco,gucaho,ugacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guacho
Misspelling Variants of "guacho"
Frequency rank: #37,119 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: