barranco
/bɑɹˈɑnkoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]"
- "A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind."