chuckwalla
noun
chuckwalla is a noun meaning “A lizard, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-U-C-K-W-A-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chuckwalla is chuckwallas.
What does chuckwalla mean?
noun
- 1
A lizard, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chuckwalla
- chuckwallas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chuckwalla?
Chuckwalla appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Chuckwalla in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lizard:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | chacahuala |
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 chuckwalla come from?
Borrowed from Spanish chacahuala, from either Shoshone tcaxxwal or Cahuilla cháxwal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).