picaro
/pˈikɑɹˌoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "2009, Lawrence, Karen R., "Orlando's Voyage Out" in Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader, Maren Linett, ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 327–354. The novel's sexual/textual "intercourse" revises the phallic economy Brown posits, not only in plotting polymorphous sexual possibilities for its nonphallic picaro."
Etymology
From Spanish pícaro.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pícaro