pinoy
Spanish, noun/piˈnoi/
pinoy is spelled P-I-N-O-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 130,910th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinoy is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pinoy mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinformalmasculinea Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male
adjective
- 1
feminineinformalmasculineof the Philippines or its people, language, and culture
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pinoy
- pinoyes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pinoy?
- /piˈnoi/
- [piˈnoi̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pinoy in Spanish?
pinoy appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).