viscacha

Questions about viscacha

What does viscacha mean?

viscacha means "gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas".

How many syllables are in viscacha?

viscacha has 3 syllables and divides as vi-sca-cha under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for viscacha?

Close synonyms include chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is viscacha a common word?

viscacha 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.