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caribeño

Spanish, noun/kaɾiˈbeɲo/

caribeño is spelled C-A-R-I-B-E-Ñ-O (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 28,665th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caribeño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Caribbean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Persona nativa del Caribe”.

What does caribeño mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Caribbean

noun

  1. 1

    masculineCaribbean

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Perteneciente o relativo a la región o al mar del Caribe.

noun: 1. Persona nativa del Caribe. 2. Persona inmigrante originaria de países de la región del Caribe en Chile.

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 caribeño

  • caribeña feminine
  • caribeños masculine plural
  • caribeñas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce caribeño?

  • /kaɾiˈbeɲo/
  • [ka.ɾiˈβ̞e.ɲo]
  • [kaɾiˈβ̞eɲo]

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

English words that translate to caribeño

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

How common is caribeño in Spanish?

caribeño appears 1.4 times per 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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