caracara

1. 1.

   any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America

   Broaderfalcon

   NarrowerAudubon's caracaracarancha

Other forms of caracara

plural

caracaras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caracara

What does caracara mean?

caracara means "any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America".

How many syllables are in caracara?

caracara has 4 syllables: ca-ra-ca-ra. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌkɑɹəˈkɑɹə/.

Is caracara a common word?

caracara is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.