tacho
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,876
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tacho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recipiente grande con fondo plano, de metal u otro material, especialmente el usado para arrojar la basura. Pronounced [ˈt̪at͡ʃo]. Often confused with toco and taco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪at͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tacho is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪at͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,876 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 tacho, with forms such as "atcho", "taccho", and "tachho". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "toco", "taco", "tajo", 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 tacho, spelled T-A-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recipiente grande con fondo plano, de metal u otro material, especialmente el usado para arrojar la basura.
- 2Dispositivo mecánico o electrónico que registra el paso del tiempo.
- 3Vehículo de alquiler que se contrata con su conductor para breves trayectos urbanos, pagándose el recorrido según la distancia a una tarifa indicada por un dispositivo ad hoc.
- 4Conjunto de las dos nalgas o partes carnosas situada en la parte más baja de la espalda.
- 5Equipo utilizado para evaporar el jugo de caña de azúcar y elevar su concentración.
- 6Utensilio metálico circular, de fondo plano, con mango o dos asas, usado para cocinar.
- 7Recipiente de plástico o metal, circular, de fondo plano, con tapa o cerrado herméticamente, de pequeño tamaño, que se usa para contener pinturas, alimentos en conserva u otros.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atcho,taccho,tachho,tacoh,tahco,tcaho,ttacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tacho
Misspelling Variants of "tacho"
Frequency rank: #37,876 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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