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temescal

noun

temescal is spelled T-E-M-E-S-C-A-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, temescal means “A sweat lodge or temazcal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of temescal is temescals.

How many letters and syllables are in temescal?

Letters8: T-E-M-E-S-C-A-L
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th 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 temescal?

Temescal appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 temescal

  • temescals plural

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

What does temescal mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A sweat lodge or temazcal

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

Where does temescal come from?

Borrowed from Spanish temescal.

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

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