ranga
/ɹæŋə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A locality of Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire."
- "2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii, Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell."
- "3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’."
- "Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits."
- "SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹæŋə/