poncho
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,404
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
poncho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda con forma de manto y un orificio para pasar la cabeza, usado normalmente por el campesino y usado por mucha gente como prenda de abrigo en invierno. Forma parte de la vestimenta habitual del... Pronounced [ˈpõnʲt͡ʃo]. Often confused with pongo and punch.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poncho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpõnʲt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for poncho is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpõnʲt͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,404 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for poncho, with forms such as "opncho", "pnocho", and "pocnho". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "pongo", "punch", "pucho", 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 poncho, spelled P-O-N-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda con forma de manto y un orificio para pasar la cabeza, usado normalmente por el campesino y usado por mucha gente como prenda de abrigo en invierno. Forma parte de la vestimenta habitual del indigena, el campesino, el huaso y el gaucho en numerosas zonas de América del Sur.
- 2Tarjeta adicional que se acopla a una placa de desarrollo, que provee funcionalidades adicionales e interfaces de conexión para estas con la placa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opncho,pnocho,pocnho,ponccho,ponchho,poncoh,ponhco,ponncho,pponcho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poncho
Misspelling Variants of "poncho"
Frequency rank: #25,404 in Spanish
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