Pakistani

noun, adjective

Pakistani is spelled P-A-K-I-S-T-A-N-I: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Pakistani means “A person from Pakistan or of Pakistani descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Pakistani is Pakistanis.

How many letters and syllables are in Pakistani?

Letters	9: P-A-K-I-S-T-A-N-I
Syllables	4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Pakistani?

Pakistani appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Pakistani?

Pakistani has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of Pakistani

Pakistanis plural
more Pakistani comparative
most Pakistani superlative

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

What does Pakistani mean?

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

noun

1
A person from Pakistan or of Pakistani descent.

adjective

1
Of, from, or pertaining to Pakistan, or its people.