regatta
/ɹɪˈɡætə/noun
regatta is a noun meaning “A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-G-A-T-T-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of regatta is regattas or regatte.
What does regatta mean?
noun
- 1
A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
- 2
A striped cotton fabric.
- 3
A group of swans on the water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce regatta?
- /ɹɪˈɡætə/
- /ɹɪˈɡɑtə/
Regatta has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-regatta.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of regatta
- regattas plural
- regatte plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is regatta?
Regatta appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Regatta in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense boat race:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does regatta come from?
From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).