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guineense

Portuguese, noun/ɡi.neˈẽ.si/

guineense is spelled G-U-I-N-E-E-N-S-E (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guineense is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Bissau-Guinean (someone or something from Guinea-Bissau)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “natural da Guiné-Bissau”.

What does guineense mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculineBissau-Guinean (of or relating to Guinea-Bissau)

  2. 2

    femininemasculineproscribedrareGuinean (of or relating to Guinea-Conakry)

  3. 3

    femininemasculineproscribedrareEquatoguinean (of or relating to Equatorial Guinea)

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculineBissau-Guinean (someone or something from Guinea-Bissau)

  2. 2

    femininemasculineproscribedrareGuinean (someone or something from Guinea-Conakry)

  3. 3

    femininemasculineproscribedrareEquatoguinean (someone or something from Equatorial Guinea)

noun

  1. 1

    masculineGuinea-Bissau Creole (Portuguese-based creole spoken in Guinea-Bissau)

  2. 2

    informalmasculineproscribedGuinean Portuguese (variety of Portuguese spoken in Guinea-Bissau)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. relativo à Guiné-Bissau

noun: 1. natural da Guiné-Bissau

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of guineense

  • guineenses plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce guineense?

  • Brazil /ɡi.neˈẽ.si/
  • Portugal /ɡiˈnjẽ.sɨ/

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

English words that translate to guineense

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

How common is guineense in Portuguese?

guineense appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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