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Angeleno

/ˌænd͡ʒɪˈliːnəʊ/noun

Angeleno is a noun meaning “A native or resident of Los Angeles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-E-L-E-N-O and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Angeleno is Angelenos or Angeleños.

What does Angeleno mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A native or resident of Los Angeles.

    The LAPD has asked Angelenos not to shoot at the alien spaceship, fearing it might trigger an interstellar war.

noun

as Angeleño
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Angeleno.

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

How do you pronounce Angeleno?

  • /ˌænd͡ʒɪˈliːnəʊ/

Angeleno 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Angeleno.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Angeleno

  • Angelenos plural
  • Angeleño
  • Angelino
  • Los Angeleno
  • Angeleños plural

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

How common is Angeleno?

Angeleno appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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).

Angeleno in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person from Los Angeles:

LanguageWords
FrenchAngelin, Angeline
GermanAngeleno
Portugueseangeleno
Spanishangelino

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Angeleno come from?

From Spanish angeleño.

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