resaca
noun
resaca is a noun meaning “A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-A-C-A, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of resaca is resacas.
What does resaca mean?
noun
- 1
A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
- 2
A small body of water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of resaca
- resacas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is resaca?
Resaca appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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 resaca come from?
From Spanish resaca, probably from resacar (“retake”), though possibly from rio seco (“dry river”) instead.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).