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Sundanese

/sʌndəˈniːz/noun, adjective

Sundanese is spelled S-U-N-D-A-N-E-S-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Sundanese means “A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Sundanese?

Letters9: S-U-N-D-A-N-E-S-E
In writingabout once in every 27 million words; the 157,761st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is Sundanese?

Sundanese appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).

How do you pronounce Sundanese?

  • /sʌndəˈniːz/
  • /sundəˈniːz/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Sundanese.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does Sundanese mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the Sundanese people.

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

Sundanese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchSoundanais, Soundanaise (ethnic group member), soundanais, soundanaise (pertaining to the Sudanese people)
GermanSundanese, Sundanesin (ethnic group member), sundanesisch (pertaining to the Sudanese people)
Portuguesesundanês (ethnic group member)

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 Sundanese come from?

From Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

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

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