gaucho
\ɡa.o.tʃo\
The verdict
“gaucho” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,704
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gardien de troupeau d’Amérique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gaucho · gaucho · French
gaucho · rank #33,704 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,704
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garnir
Nearest frequency peer: garnir (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaucho »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- García
García
66,300 corpus weight
- garnir
garnir
66,298 corpus weight
- gaucho
gaucho
66,297 corpus weight
- Gerhard
Gerhard
66,296 corpus weight
- Gerland
Gerland
66,295 corpus weight
- German
German
66,294 corpus weight
What this shows « gaucho » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaucho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.o.tʃo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gaucho »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around gaucho (IPA \ɡa.o.tʃo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,704 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gardien de troupeau d’Amérique du Sud.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for gaucho, with forms such as "agucho", "gacuho", and "gauccho". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "gauchos", "gâche", "gauche", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gaucho, spelled G-A-U-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Gardien de troupeau d’Amérique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gaucho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est mon avis, dit le major, car, si je ne me trompe, loin d’être inoffensifs, les Gauchos sont, au contraire, de francs et redoutables bandits.
C'est ainsi que je fus conduit à raconter qu'ayant été trois jours égaré dans ces plaines sans fin, n'ayant pas de vivres ni d'eau, j'avais été réduit à faire comme les gauchos qui m'accompagnaient, c'est-à-dire à saigner mon cheval et à boire son sang.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agucho
- gacuho
- gauccho
- gauchho
- gaucoh
- gauhco
- ggaucho
- guacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gaucho - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).