Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

longanisa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lon-gan-isa
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Spanish sausage similar to chorizo.

Example Sentences

"If the cooking at Phil-Am Kusina is sometimes distracted, that may be because Mr. Imperial is busy these days; he also manages his parents’ grocery store, and this year started a food truck called Sisig City, currently stationed in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and offering the likes of lechon sliders and longanisa sausage “mini dogs,” for delivery only."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish longaniza. Doublet of lucanica.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: longaniza

Inflected Forms

longanisas (plural)

Questions

What does longanisa mean?: A Spanish sausage similar to chorizo.
Where does longanisa come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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