acara
/ɑːkəˈɹɑː/noun
acara is a noun meaning “Any of a number of Central American and South American freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-A-R-A, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of acara is acaras.
What does acara mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a number of Central American and South American freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce acara?
- /ɑːkəˈɹɑː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of acara
- acaras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is acara?
Acara appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
Where does acara come from?
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese acará, borrowed from Old Tupi akará, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akara.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).