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rancheria

noun

rancheria is spelled R-A-N-C-H-E-R-I-A: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rancheria means “A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rancheria is rancherías or rancherias.

How many letters and syllables are in rancheria?

Letters9: R-A-N-C-H-E-R-I-A
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd 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 rancheria?

Rancheria appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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 rancheria

  • rancherías plural
  • rancherias plural
  • ranchería
  • rancherio

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

What does rancheria mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.

  2. 2

    A political division denoting a small poor rural settlement.

noun

as ranchería
  1. 1

    Alternative form of rancheria.

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

Where does rancheria come from?

Borrowed from Spanish ranchería. Doublet of rancherie.

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

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