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viga

/ˈviːɡə/noun

viga is a noun meaning “A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-G-A, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viga is vigas.

What does viga mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village

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

How do you pronounce viga?

  • /ˈviːɡə/

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

Forms of viga

  • vigas plural

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

How common is viga?

Viga appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 viga come from?

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

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