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Nahua

noun, adjective

Nahua is spelled N-A-H-U-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Nahua means “A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Nahua is Nahuas.

How many letters and syllables are in Nahua?

Letters5: N-A-H-U-A
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 Nahua?

Nahua appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 Nahua

  • Nahuas plural

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

What does Nahua mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.

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

Nahua in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person:

LanguageWords
Spanishnahoa, nahua

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.

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