costeño
Spanish, noun/kosˈteɲo/
costeño is spelled C-O-S-T-E-Ñ-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,742nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Costeño is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “an inhabitant of the coastal regions of a country” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fruto comestible, muy consumido en el Caribe, de un tipo de planta musácea genéricamente conocida como…”.
What does costeño mean in English?
noun
- 1
Latin-Americamasculinean inhabitant of the coastal regions of a country
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Propio de la costa o relativo a ella. 2. Que nació o se desarrolló en la costa o en sus inmediaciones.
noun: 1. Fruto comestible, muy consumido en el Caribe, de un tipo de planta musácea genéricamente conocida como plátano o banano.
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 costeño
- costeños plural
- costeña feminine
- costeñas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce costeño?
- /kosˈteɲo/
- [kosˈt̪e.ɲo]
- [kosˈt̪eɲo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to costeño
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is costeño in Spanish?
costeño appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).