barata
/baˈɾata/ · B1 · noun · f
cockroach
🪳 barata sounds like bar rat: the pest scuttling around a dirty bar
Say it ba-RA-ta, with the stress on the middle syllable, and hear the rat in it. Watch out: barata is also the feminine of barato, cheap. So una barata is a cockroach, but una casa barata is a cheap house.