riata
/ɹɪˈɑːtə/noun
riata is a noun meaning “A lariat or lasso” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-A-T-A, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of riata is riatas.
What does riata mean?
noun
- 1
USA lariat or lasso.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce riata?
- /ɹɪˈɑːtə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of riata
- riatas plural
- reata
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is riata?
Riata appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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 riata come from?
From Spanish reata, from reatar (“to retie”). Compare lariat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).