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karanga

noun

karanga is spelled K-A-R-A-N-G-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, karanga means “In Māori culture, an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōhiri” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of karanga is karangas.

How many letters and syllables are in karanga?

Letters7: K-A-R-A-N-G-A
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is karanga?

Karanga appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Forms of karanga

  • karangas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does karanga mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    In Māori culture, an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōhiri.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does karanga come from?

From Māori karanga.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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