swahili
Portuguese, noun
swahili is spelled S-W-A-H-I-L-I (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,064th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Swahili is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of suaíli” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does swahili mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of suaíli
adjective
- 1
alternative form of suaíli
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common is swahili in Portuguese?
swahili appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
swahili0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).