# Tehachapi

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #86,841

## Definitions
1. A city in Kern County, California, United States.
2. Synonym of Kawaiisu (“a Uto-Aztecan language”).
3. A mountain range in California, United States, separating the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert, part of the Transverse Ranges.

## Etymology
From Kawaiisu tihačipía, from tihaa (“hard”) + čipii- (“to climb”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tehachapi