muchacha

/[muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,860

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

muchacha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer que se emplea como criada o que atiende el servicio doméstico. Pronounced [muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa]. It ranks #5,860 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with muchacho and muchachos.

Key facts for muchacha
PropertyValue
Headwordmuchacha
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,860
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of muchacha in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for muchacha is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,860 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mujer que se emplea como criada o que atiende el servicio doméstico.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for muchacha, with forms such as "mcuhacha", "mmuchacha", and "mucahcha". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "muchacho", "muchachos", "muchachas", 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 muchacha, spelled M-U-C-H-A-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mujer que se emplea como criada o que atiende el servicio doméstico.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mcuhacha,mmuchacha,mucahcha,mucchacha,muchacah,muchaccha,muchachha,muchahca,muchcaha,muchhacha,muhcacha,umchacha

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for muchacha

Misspelling Variants of "muchacha"

mcuhacha8mmuchacha9mucahcha8mucchacha9muchacah8muchaccha9muchachha9muchahca8
Misspelling Variants of "muchacha"

Frequency rank: #5,860 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "muchacha"?
"muchacha" is spelled M-U-C-H-A-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is [muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa].
What does "muchacha" mean?
As a noun, "muchacha" means: Mujer que se emplea como criada o que atiende el servicio doméstico.
What words are commonly confused with "muchacha"?
"muchacha" is commonly confused with "muchacho", "muchachos", "muchachas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "muchacha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "muchacha" is [muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "muchacha" come from?
"muchacha" 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.