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altiplano

noun

altiplano is a noun meaning “a high plateau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-T-I-P-L-A-N-O and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of altiplano is altiplanos.

What does altiplano mean?

noun

  1. 1

    a high plateau

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

How do you pronounce altiplano?

    Altiplano has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of altiplano

    • altiplanos plural

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

    How common is altiplano?

    Altiplano appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).

    Where does altiplano come from?

    From American Spanish altiplano.

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