Kwantlen
noun
Kwantlen is a noun meaning “Any member of a branch of the Sto꞉lo people living in the Fort Langley and McMillan Island area of British Columbia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-W-A-N-T-L-E-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Kwantlen mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of a branch of the Sto꞉lo people living in the Fort Langley and McMillan Island area of British Columbia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Kwantlen
- q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓
- Qw'ó:ntl'an
- Qw'ó:ltl'el
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Kwantlen?
Kwantlen appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 Kwantlen come from?
Borrowed from Halkomelem q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).