guincho
[ˈgĩnʲt͡ʃo]
The verdict
“guincho” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento con punta para herir o picar, que suele hacerse de una vara o palo aguzado a este efecto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-guincho · guincho · Spanish
guincho · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guincho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgĩnʲt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “guincho” en español
Rare enough to double-check
guincho is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈgĩnʲt͡ʃo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for guincho in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 guincho, spelled G-U-I-N-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Instrumento con punta para herir o picar, que suele hacerse de una vara o palo aguzado a este efecto.
- 2Águila pescadora.
- 3Variante de gancho.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.