caudillo
\kaw.di.jo\
The verdict
“caudillo” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dictateur militaire ou politique qui a pris le pouvoir en Amérique latine ou en Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caudillo · caudillo · French
caudillo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caudillo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaw.di.jo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
caudillo is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaw.di.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dictateur militaire ou politique qui a pris le pouvoir en Amérique latine ou en Espagne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caudillo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caudillo, spelled C-A-U-D-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Dictateur militaire ou politique qui a pris le pouvoir en Amérique latine ou en Espagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caudillo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caudillo Franco.
Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, surnommé El Chacho, (1798-1863) était un caudillo et chef militaire fédéraliste, un des derniers chefs de cette tendance politique à s’être soulevé.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.