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suahili

Spanish, noun

suahili is spelled S-U-A-H-I-L-I (7 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Spanish, the 229,525th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suahili is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “alternative form of suajili” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, suahilí is a different word: “alternative form of suajili”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante subestándar de suajili”.

What does suahili mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of suajili

noun

as suahilí
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of suajili

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante subestándar de suajili.

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.

How common is suahili in Spanish?

suahili appears about once in every 42 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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