chombo
Spanish, noun/ˈt͡ʃombo/
chombo is spelled C-H-O-M-B-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 147,327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chombo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “an anglophone black person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hombre de raza negra y anglófono”.
What does chombo mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialderogatorymasculinean anglophone black person
adjective
- 1
Dark-skinned
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hombre de raza negra y anglófono.
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 chombo
- chombos plural
- chomba feminine
- chombas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chombo?
- /ˈt͡ʃombo/
- [ˈt͡ʃõm.bo]
- [ˈt͡ʃõmbo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chombo in Spanish?
chombo appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).