Machiguenga
noun
Machiguenga is a noun meaning “A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-H-I-G-U-E-N-G-A, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Machiguenga is Machiguengas.
What does Machiguenga mean?
noun
- 1
A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.
Most Machiguenga lack personal names. Members of the same tribe are individuated using kin terminology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Machiguenga
- Machiguengas plural
- Matsigenga
- Matsigenka
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Machiguenga?
Machiguenga appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).