cachovscampoConfusable pair

Which to use

“cacho” and “campo” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#15,294
“cacho” frequency rank
#560
“campo” frequency rank
15854
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cacho campo
Definition Pedazo o porción de alguna cosa, en especial de límites más bien difusos o amorfa. Región rural.

Where the eye mixes cacho and campo

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
cacho
5 ch
campo

Look-alike desk: cacho vs campo

A purely visual mix-up. cacho ([ˈkat͡ʃo]) and campo ([ˈkãmpo]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15854, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cacho is recorded at frequency rank #15,294, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈkat͡ʃo]. campo is at rank #560, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈkãmpo].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 15854, this pair ranks #278,514 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cacho vs campo

Shared letters: aco. Private to "cacho": h. Private to "campo": mp.

"cacho" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "campo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cachoaccho · caccho · cachho · cacoh · cahco · ccacho · ccaho
  • campoacmpo · cammpo · camop · camppo · capmo · ccampo · cmapo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cacho" for "campo" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ˈkat͡ʃo] versus [ˈkãmpo]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "cacho" or "campo" show up more?
"campo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #560 in our Spanish list, against #15,294 for "cacho". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "cacho" and "campo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cacho" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #278,514 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cacho" and "campo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cachas vs cacho". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #278,514 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list