# Latina vs Latino

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Latina
*noun · IPA /ləˈtiːnə/ · frequency rank #17,658*
A Latin American woman. (Compare Latino.)

### Latino
*adjective · IPA /ləˈtiːnəʊ/ · frequency rank #9,776*
Of Latin American descent, Hispanic.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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