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CARACARAS

"CARACARAS" is a plural of: caracara.

Date "CARACARAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)


Specialty Definition: CARACARAS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A family of diurna birds of prey now usually restricted to falcons and caracaras. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CARACARAS

English words defined with "CARACARAS": Falconiformesorder Falconiformes. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CARACARAS": falcons. (references)

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Usage Frequency: CARACARAS

"CARACARAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CARACARAS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CARACARAS

Language Translations for "CARACARAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

falke (falconidae, falcons). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

valken (falconidae, falcons). (various references)

   

French

  

faucons, falconidés. (various references)

   

German

  

Falken (falcons, hawks). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιερακίδες (falconidae, falcons). (various references)

   

Italian

  

falconidi (falconidae, falcons). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aracarascay

   

Portuguese

  

falcões (falconidae, falcons). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: CARACARAS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Falconidae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: CARACARAS

Misspellings

"CARACARAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caracias, carceral, Carcharias, Carchayra, cercariae, Cojacaru, craaaark. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CARACARAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-r-r-s"

-1 letter: caracara.

-2 letters: cascara.

-4 letters: arras, cacas, carrs, sacra.

-5 letters: arcs, caca, carr, cars, casa, scar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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