Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

machiguenga

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English

Syllables: machiguen-ga
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.

Example Sentences

"Most Machiguenga lack personal names. Members of the same tribe are individuated using kin terminology."

Inflected Forms

Machiguengas (plural) Matsigenga (alternative) Matsigenka (alternative)

Questions

What does machiguenga mean?: A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.

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