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taco rice

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables
taco rice
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.

Uncountable

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese タコライス (takoraisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from taco + rice.

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

omurice

Questions

What does taco rice mean?
A yoshoku dish from Okinawa, mainly consisting of ground beef on a bed of rice.
Where does taco rice come from?
Phono-semantic matching from Japanese タコライス (takoraisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from taco + rice.

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