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ethnostate

noun

ethnostate is spelled E-T-H-N-O-S-T-A-T-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ethnostate means “A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ethnostate is ethnostates.

How many letters and syllables are in ethnostate?

Letters10: E-T-H-N-O-S-T-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th 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 ethnostate?

Ethnostate appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

Forms of ethnostate

  • ethnostates plural
  • ethno-state

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

What does ethnostate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.

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

Ethnostate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group:

LanguageWords
Frenchethno-état
GermanEthnostaat
Portugueseetnoestado
Spanishetnostato

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 ethnostate come from?

From ethno- + state.

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

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