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rapanui

Portuguese, noun

rapanui is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative spelling of rapa nui” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “Língua falada na ilha de Páscoa”.

What does rapanui mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinealternative spelling of rapa nui

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Língua falada na ilha de Páscoa.

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.

How common is rapanui in Portuguese?

rapanui appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.

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