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Milanese

adjective, noun

Milanese is spelled M-I-L-A-N-E-S-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Milanese means “Of, from or relating to the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Milanese?

Letters8: M-I-L-A-N-E-S-E
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th 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 Milanese?

Milanese appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 Milanese

  • Milaneses plural

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

What does Milanese mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from or relating to the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the city of Milan or surrounding metropolitan city, Lombardy, Italy.

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

Milanese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmilanais (pertaining to Milan), Milanais, Milanaise (inhabitant or native of Milan)
Germanmailändisch (pertaining to Milan), Mailänder, Mailänderin (inhabitant or native of Milan)
Portuguesemilanês (pertaining to Milan), milanesa (inhabitant or native of Milan)
Spanishmilanés (pertaining to Milan), milanesa (inhabitant or native of Milan)

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 Milanese come from?

Borrowed from Italian milanese.

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

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