Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

camanchaca

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ca-man-cha-ca
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of mist found on the west coast of South America by the Atacama Desert, which does not drop rain.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish camanchaca, from Aymara kamanchaka (“darkness”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: camanchaca, kamanchaka

Inflected Forms

camanchacas (plural)

Questions

What does camanchaca mean?: A type of mist found on the west coast of South America by the Atacama Desert, which does not drop rain.
Where does camanchaca come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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