Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

viscacha

/vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vis-ca-cha
IPA: /vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus.

Example Sentences

"From the tenderness of its covering, it is not, though a stronger and larger animal, so able to bear the severity of winter in the Andes as the Chinchilla, though it is not so decidedly an animal of the plains as the viscacha of Paraguay."
"The guanaco, the viscacha, and the hare of the Pampas, are found in Patagonia."
"A guard viscacha watches for predators. This guard sounds an alarm if it spots danger. Then the quick-moving viscachas scramble into their dens in the rocks or burrow into the ground."
"The Andean cat's prey is small mammals such as the mountain viscacha, which look very much like a common North American cottontail rabbit. Mountain viscachas eat coarse spikegrass that is found near small mountain streams."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vizcacha, from Quechua wisk'acha.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: vizcacha, wisk'acha

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/
British English: /vɪˈskatʃə/

Inflected Forms

viscachas (plural) vizcacha (alternative) biscacha (alternative, rare) biscacho (alternative, rare) bizcacha (alternative, rare)

Phrases

mountain viscacha northern viscacha plains viscacha southern viscacha viscacha rat Wolffsohn's viscacha

Frequently Paired Words

viscachera

Synonyms

chinchillon lagostomus maximus

Rhymes With

appalachia sriracha gacha dacha

Questions

How do you pronounce viscacha?: The recorded pronunciation is /vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/.
What does viscacha mean?: Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus.
Where does viscacha come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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