carioca

Other forms of carioca

plural

cariocas·

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 carioca

What does carioca mean?

carioca means "a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carioca?

carioca has 4 syllables: car-i-o-ca. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌkɛɹiˈoʊkə/.

Is carioca a common word?

carioca is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with carioca?

2 words rhyme with carioca. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.