palagi
pa·lang·i/ˈpɑːləŋi/noun
palagi is a noun meaning “A white person; a Caucasian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-A-G-I and has 3 syllables (pa·lang·i), and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of palagi is palagis.
What does palagi mean?
noun
- 1
A white person; a Caucasian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce palagi?
- /ˈpɐ̞ːlɐ̞ŋi/
- /pɐ̞ˈlɐ̞ŋ(ɡ)i/
- UK /ˈpɑːləŋi/
Palagi has 3 syllables, split pa·lang·i in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of palagi
- palagis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is palagi?
Palagi appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Where does palagi come from?
From Samoan pālagi, variant of papālagi (“white person, European”). Compare earlier papalagi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).