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kombi

noun

kombi is a noun meaning “A minivan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-M-B-I, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kombi is kombis.

What does kombi mean?

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaA minivan.

  2. 2

    A minibus (sixteen-seater vehicle used as a taxi).

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

Forms of kombi

  • kombis plural

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

How common is kombi?

Kombi appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 kombi come from?

Genericized trademark from the Volkswagen Kombi, a brand of minivans. Borrowed from German Kombi and, in South Africa, reinforced by Afrikaans kombi.

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