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banano

Spanish, noun/baˈnano/

banano is spelled B-A-N-A-N-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,911th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Banano is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “banana (fruit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Musa acuminata, M. balbisiana, M. x paradisiaca) Grupo de plantas herbáceas, compuesto tanto por híbridos…”.

What does banano mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebanana (fruit)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. (Musa acuminata, M. balbisiana, M. x paradisiaca) Grupo de plantas herbáceas, compuesto tanto por híbridos como por cultivares genéticamente puros de algunas especies de Musa, que se cultivan por su fruto, la banana y el plátano, que se consume como alimento. Se cultivan en más de 130 países, desde el sudeste asiático de donde son nativas, hasta Oceanía y Sudamérica. No son árboles sino megaforbia 2. Banana (fruto del banano). 3. Pene. 4. Pliegue de grasa en la zona abdominal.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of banano

  • bananos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce banano?

  • /baˈnano/
  • [baˈna.no]
  • [baˈnano]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to banano

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is banano in Spanish?

banano appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.

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

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