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Nauruan

/nɑːˈuːɹuːən/noun, adjective

Nauruan is spelled N-A-U-R-U-A-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Nauruan means “A person from Nauru or of Nauruan descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Nauruan is Nauruans.

How many letters and syllables are in Nauruan?

Letters7: N-A-U-R-U-A-N
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th 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 Nauruan?

Nauruan appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).

How do you pronounce Nauruan?

  • /nɑːˈuːɹuːən/
  • /naʊˈɹuːən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Nauruan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Nauruan

  • Nauruans plural

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

What does Nauruan mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Nauru or of Nauruan descent.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to Nauru, the Nauruan people or the Nauruan language.

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

Nauruan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchNauruan, Nauruane (person from Nauru), nauruan (pertaining to Nauru)
GermanNauruer, Nauruerin (person from Nauru), nauruisch (pertaining to Nauru)
Portuguesenauruano, naoerano (person from Nauru)
Spanishnauruano (person from Nauru)

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 Nauruan come from?

From Nauru + -an.

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

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