la brea
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A region of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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A town in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
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A region of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
Etymology
From Spanish La Brea, from la (“the”)+brea (“tar, pitch”). * (Los Angeles): Coined by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 as Los Volcanes de Brea (The Tar Volcanoes), from the tar geyers found in the tar swamp that now exist as the La Brea Tar Pits park. * (Trinidad): From the asphalt lake and tar seeps found on the island of Trinidad by Spanish conquistadors.
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Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
laBrea (alternative)
Brea (alternative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
La Bray