Guyanese

/ˌɡaɪəˈniːz/noun, adjective

Guyanese is spelled G-U-Y-A-N-E-S-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Guyanese means “A person from Guyana or of Guyanese descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Guyanese?

Letters	8: G-U-Y-A-N-E-S-E
In writing	about once in every 3 million words; the 53,573rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 Guyanese?

Guyanese appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd most frequent word form in the list.

Guyanese0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Guyanese?

/ˌɡaɪəˈniːz/

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

What does Guyanese mean?

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

noun

1
A person from Guyana or of Guyanese descent.
2
Guyanese Creole

adjective

1
Of, from, or pertaining to Guyana, the Guyanese people or the Guyanese language.

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

Guyanese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	Guyanais, Guyanaise (person from Guyana)
German	Guyaner, Guyanerin (person from Guyana), guyanisch (pertaining to Guyana)
Portuguese	guianês, guianesa, guianense (person from Guyana)
Spanish	guyanés, guyanesa (person from Guyana)

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 Guyanese come from?

From Guyana + -ese.