Surinamese

/ˌsʊəɹɪnəˈmiːz/noun, adjective

Surinamese is spelled S-U-R-I-N-A-M-E-S-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Surinamese means “A person from Suriname or of Surinamese descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Surinamese?

Letters	10: S-U-R-I-N-A-M-E-S-E
In writing	about once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 Surinamese?

Surinamese appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Surinamese0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Surinamese?

/ˌsʊəɹɪnəˈmiːz/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Surinamese.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does Surinamese mean?

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

noun

1
A person from Suriname or of Surinamese descent.

adjective

1
Of, from, or pertaining to Suriname, the Surinamese people or the Surinamese language.

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

Surinamese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	surinamien, surinamienne, surinamais, surinamaise (person from Suriname)
German	Surinamer, Surinamerin (person from Suriname), surinamisch (of, from or pertaining to Suriname)
Portuguese	surinamense, surinamês (person from Suriname)
Spanish	surinamés (person from Suriname)

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.