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Paulista

noun

Paulista is a noun meaning “A native or inhabitant of the state of São Paulo, Brazil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-U-L-I-S-T-A, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Paulista is Paulistas.

What does Paulista mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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

Forms of Paulista

  • Paulistas plural

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

How common is Paulista?

Paulista appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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 Paulista come from?

From Portuguese Paulista.

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