gaucho

1. 1.

   a cowboy of the South American pampas

   Broadercowboy

Other forms of gaucho

plural

gauchoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gaucho

What does gaucho mean?

gaucho means "a cowboy of the South American pampas".

How many syllables are in gaucho?

gaucho has 2 syllables: gau-cho. The stress falls on "gau". In IPA it is /ˈɡaʊtʃoʊ/.

Is gaucho a common word?

gaucho is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.