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Sinto

noun

Sinto is a noun meaning “A member of the Sinti ethnic group, especially a male member” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-I-N-T-O, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Sinto is Sinti.

What does Sinto mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Sinti ethnic group, especially a male member.

    Coordinate term: Sinta

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

Forms of Sinto

  • Sinti plural

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

How common is Sinto?

Sinto appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).

Sinto in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a member of the Romani subgroup:

LanguageWords
FrenchSinto
GermanSinto

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 Sinto come from?

Ultimately from Sinte Romani sinto, possibly via German Sinto; see those entries for more.

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