pareo
/ˈpɑː(ɹ)i.əʊ/noun
pareo is a noun meaning “A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-E-O, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pareo is pareos.
What does pareo mean?
noun
- 1
A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pareo?
- /ˈpɑː(ɹ)i.əʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pareo
- pareos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pareo?
Pareo appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Pareo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wraparound garment:
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 pareo come from?
Borrowed from Tahitian pāreu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).