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Greeklish

/ˈɡɹiːklɪʃ/

Greeklish proper noun: a system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).

Proper noun

Greeklish

  1. A system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).
    Synonyms:
    Latinoellinika

Synonyms of Greeklish

  • Latinoellinika

Origin of Greeklish

Blend of Greek + English?

Questions about Greeklish

What does Greeklish mean?
Greeklish means a system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).
What part of speech is Greeklish?
Greeklish is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Greeklish?
Greeklish is pronounced /ˈɡɹiːklɪʃ/.

Words near Greeklish in the dictionary

  1. Greekless
  2. Greeklessness
  3. Greeklike
  4. Greekling
  5. Greeklings
  6. Greeklish
  7. Greekly
  8. Greekness
  9. greeks
  10. greeks it
  11. Greektown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Greeklish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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