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arca

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables
ar-ca
IPA
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Acronym of Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car auto racing sanctioning body in the United States, founded in 1952.

American usage

name

A surname.

Etymology

From Galician, Portuguese, and Italian surname, all ultimately from the noun arca (“chest, storehouse”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Arcas (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

NASCAR

Questions

What does arca mean?
Acronym of Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car auto racing sanctioning body in the United States, founded in 1952.
Where does arca come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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