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Mauritian

adjective, noun

Mauritian is spelled M-A-U-R-I-T-I-A-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Mauritian means “Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Mauritian?

Letters9: M-A-U-R-I-T-I-A-N
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 79,518th 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 Mauritian?

Mauritian appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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 Mauritian

  • Mauritians plural

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

What does Mauritian mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.

    One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.

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

Mauritian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmauricien (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its…), Mauricien, Mauricienne (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent)
Germanmauritisch (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its…), Mauritier, Mauritierin (person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent)
Spanishmauriciano (of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its…)

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 Mauritian come from?

From Mauritius + -an.

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

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