nicho
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,498
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
nicho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Concavidad en el espesor de un muro, generalmente en forma de semicilindro y terminada en un cuarto de esfera, para colocar dentro una estatua, un jarrón u otra cosa. Pronounced [ˈnit͡ʃo]. Often confused with niño and nick.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nicho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnit͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nicho is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnit͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,498 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 nicho, with forms such as "incho", "nciho", and "niccho". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "niño", "nick", "nido", 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 nicho, spelled N-I-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Concavidad en el espesor de un muro, generalmente en forma de semicilindro y terminada en un cuarto de esfera, para colocar dentro una estatua, un jarrón u otra cosa.
- 2Cualquier concavidad formada para colocar una cosa, como en los cementerios o bóvedas un cadáver.
- 3Porción del mercado, habitualmente pequeña, que responde a necesidades muy específicas de los consumidores, o a ofertas muy específicas de los productores.
- 4Papel que desempeña una especie en su comunidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: incho,nciho,niccho,nichho,nicoh,nihco,nnicho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "nicho"
Frequency rank: #17,498 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index: