guanaco
Portuguese, noun/ɡwaˈna.ku/
guanaco is spelled G-U-A-N-A-C-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 162,831st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guanaco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “camelídeo nativo da América do Sul”.
What does guanaco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineguanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. camelídeo nativo da América do Sul
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of guanaco
- guanacos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guanaco?
- Brazil /ɡwaˈna.ku/
- Portugal /ɡwɐˈna.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guanaco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guanaco in Portuguese?
guanaco appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).