sorocho
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "New-comers upon those elevated parts of the Andes suffer from "puna," or "sorocho," an acclimation disease, characterized by piercing chilliness, headache, and nausea."
- "The facts probably are that the ordinary symptoms of sorocho are aggravated by the putrid emanations from the tombs, and the virulent diseases result from the latter cause."
- "A traveler who has explored the mountains of Bolivia and reru, in search of gold and silver mines, tells me that Indian postilions, using coca freely when driving pack-mules over the roughest roads along the Sierras, even when the sorocho prevails, outstrip well-mounted horsemen."