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gran chaco

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English

Syllables
gran cha-co
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.

Etymology

Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Gran Chaco (canonical)

Synonyms

Chaco Plain Dry Chaco

Questions

What does gran chaco mean?
A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Where does gran chaco come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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