Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carrao

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: car-rao
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The limpkin, a bird.

Etymology

From American Spanish carrao, from Paraguayan Guarani [Term?] car(r)aú, carao, caraó, originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Inflected Forms

carraos (plural) carau (alternative)

Questions

What does carrao mean?: The limpkin, a bird.
Where does carrao come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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