locha

/[ˈlot͡ʃa]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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locha is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cobitidae) Pez del orden de los malacopterigios abdominales, de unos tres decímetros de longitud, cuerpo casi cilíndrico, aplastado lateralmente hacia la cola, de color negruzco, con listas amaril... Pronounced [ˈlot͡ʃa].

Key facts for locha
PropertyValue
Headwordlocha
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈlot͡ʃa]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

locha is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for locha is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlot͡ʃa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Cobitidae) Pez del orden de los malacopterigios abdominales, de unos tres decímetros de longitud, cuerpo casi cilíndrico, aplastado lateralmente hacia la cola, de color negruzco, con listas amaril...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for locha in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 locha, spelled L-O-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Cobitidae) Pez del orden de los malacopterigios abdominales, de unos tres decímetros de longitud, cuerpo casi cilíndrico, aplastado lateralmente hacia la cola, de color negruzco, con listas amarillentas, escamas pequeñas, piel viscosa, boca rodeada de diez barbillas, seis en el labio superior y cuatro en el inferior, labios salientes y aletas no pareadas. Se cría en los lagos y ríos de agua fría y su carne es muy fina.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "locha"?
"locha" is spelled L-O-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlot͡ʃa].
What does "locha" mean?
As a noun, "locha" means: (Cobitidae) Pez del orden de los malacopterigios abdominales, de unos tres decímetros de longitud, cuerpo casi cilíndrico, aplastado lateralmente hacia la cola, de color negruzco, con listas amaril...
How do you pronounce "locha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "locha" is [ˈlot͡ʃa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "locha" come from?
"locha" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.