fracaso

Meaning

failure

Example

The first attempt was a failure, the second one worked.

A way to remember it

Cousin of English "fracas", a noisy smash-up: a plan that ends in a fracas is a "failure".

Word forms

The spellings this word turns up in. There are 1 of them.

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