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Antillean

/æntəˈliːən/adjective, noun

Antillean is spelled A-N-T-I-L-L-E-A-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Antillean means “Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Antillean?

Letters9: A-N-T-I-L-L-E-A-N
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Antillean?

Antillean appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

How do you pronounce Antillean?

  • /æntəˈliːən/
  • /ænˈtɪli.ən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Antillean.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Antillean

  • Antilleans plural

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

What does Antillean mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language.

    Holonym: Caribbean

noun

  1. 1

    A person from the Antilles or of Antillean descent.

    Holonym: Caribbean

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

Antillean in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchantillais (of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles), Antillais, Antillaise (person from the Antilles)
Germanantillisch (of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles)
Portugueseantilhano (of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles)
Spanishantillano (of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles)

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 Antillean come from?

From Antilles + -ean.

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

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