mankini
/mænˈkiː.ni/noun
mankini is a noun meaning “A kind of sling bikini worn by men” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-N-K-I-N-I, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mankini is mankinis.
What does mankini mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of sling bikini worn by men.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mankini?
- /mænˈkiː.ni/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mankini
- mankinis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mankini?
Mankini appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 mankini come from?
Blend of man + bikini, equivalent to man + -kini.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).