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AAPI

/eɪ eɪ piː aɪ/noun

AAPI is a noun meaning “Initialism of Asian American or Pacific Islander” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-A-P-I, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of AAPI is AAPIs.

What does AAPI mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of Asian American or Pacific Islander.

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

How do you pronounce AAPI?

  • /eɪ eɪ piː aɪ/

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

Forms of AAPI

  • AAPIs plural

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

How common is AAPI?

AAPI appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).