papiamento
Portuguese, noun/pɐ.pɪ.ɐ.ˈmẽⁿ.tʊ/, /pɐ.pjɐ.ˈmẽⁿ.tʊ/
papiamento is spelled P-A-P-I-A-M-E-N-T-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese, the 183,862nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Papiamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Papiamento (Spanish- and Portuguese-based creole spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “língua crioula falada nas Antilhas Holandesas (código de língua ISO 639-3: pap)”.
What does papiamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePapiamento (Spanish- and Portuguese-based creole spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. língua crioula falada nas Antilhas Holandesas (código de língua ISO 639-3: pap)
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 papiamento
- papeamento alternative rare
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce papiamento?
- /pɐ.pɪ.ɐ.ˈmẽⁿ.tʊ/, /pɐ.pjɐ.ˈmẽⁿ.tʊ/
- /p6.pI.6."me~_n.tU/, /p6.pj6."me~_n.tU/
- /pa.pi.a.ˈmẽj.tu/, /pa.pja.ˈmẽj.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is papiamento in Portuguese?
papiamento appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).