spanglish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A language blend of English and Spanish spoken by both Latinas, Latinos, and Anglo-Americans.
Example Sentences
- "The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.”"
- "“It’s a lot of trying to understand how other languages work,” Rosalía, 33, said in an interview, conducted in English with a sprinkling of Spanglish, on Popcast, The New York Times’s music show."
- "His Spanglish was quite embarrassing when he said he was “embarazado”, as that means “pregnant”, not “embarrassed”."
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Linguistics.