The word "nigger" is an offensive term.
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Nigger
/ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/
Synonyms for "nigger" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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More general
10 entriesMore specific
1 entriesin group reclaiming term
Collocations
6 entriesderogatory termethnic sluroffensive epithetpejorative termracial epithetracial slur
Inflections
1 entriesTranslations
111 translations across 42 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- zezak noun (black person (derogatory))
Arabic
4 entries- أَسْوَد noun (black person (derogatory))
- زَنْجِيّ noun (black person (derogatory))
- زِنْجِيّ noun (black person (derogatory))
- عَبْد noun (black person (derogatory))
Armenian
1 entries- նեգր noun (black person (derogatory))
Azerbaijani
1 entries- zənci noun (black person (derogatory))
Bulgarian
2 entries- манга́л noun (black person (derogatory))
- не́гър noun (black person (derogatory))
Chinese
2 entries- 烏張飛 /乌张飞 noun (black person (derogatory))
- 烏鬼 /乌鬼 noun (black person (derogatory))
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 黑鬼 noun (black person (derogatory))
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 尼哥 noun (black person (derogatory))
- 黑鬼 noun (black person (derogatory))
Czech
1 entries- negr noun (black person (derogatory))
Danish
2 entries- abekat noun (black person (derogatory))
- nigger noun (black person (derogatory))
Dutch
3 entries- neger noun (black person (derogatory))
- nikker noun (black person (derogatory))
- roetmop noun (black person (derogatory))
Esperanto
2 entries- nigrulaĉino noun (black person (derogatory))
- nigrulaĉo noun (black person (derogatory))
Estonian
2 entries- neeger noun (black person (derogatory))
- pigi noun (black person (derogatory))
Finnish
4 entries- laku noun (black person (derogatory))
- lakupekka noun (black person (derogatory))
- lakupetteri noun (black person (derogatory))
- neekeri noun (black person (derogatory))
French
4 entries- bougnoule noun (black person (derogatory))
- nègre noun (black person (derogatory))
- négresse noun (black person (derogatory))
- négro noun (black person (derogatory))
Georgian
1 entries- ზანგი noun (black person (derogatory))
German
4 entries- Bimbo noun (black person (derogatory))
- Kaffer noun (black person (derogatory))
- Kafferin noun (black person (derogatory))
- Mohr noun (black person (derogatory))
Greek
2 entries- αράπης noun (black person (derogatory))
- αραπίνα noun (black person (derogatory))
Hawaiian
1 entries- nika noun (black person (derogatory))
Hebrew
2 entries- כּוּשִׁי noun (black person (derogatory))
- כושון noun (black person (derogatory))
Hindi
1 entries- कालू noun (black person (derogatory))
Hungarian
2 entries- feka noun (black person (derogatory))
- néger noun (black person (derogatory))
Icelandic
1 entries- negri noun (black person (derogatory))
Ido
1 entries- nigracho noun (black person (derogatory))
Italian
2 entries- negra noun (black person (derogatory))
- negro noun (black person (derogatory))
Japanese
3 entries- ニガー noun (black person (derogatory))
- 黒んぼ noun (black person (derogatory))
- 黒奴 noun (black person (derogatory))
Korean
2 entries- 검둥이 noun (black person (derogatory))
- 깜둥이 noun (black person (derogatory))
Macedonian
1 entries- црнец noun (black person (derogatory))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sotrør noun (black person (derogatory))
- svarting noun (black person (derogatory))
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- svarting noun (black person (derogatory))
Persian
3 entries- سیاه سوخته noun (black person (derogatory))
- غلام سیاه noun (black person (derogatory))
- کاکا سیاه noun (black person (derogatory))
Polish
3 entries- asfalt noun (black person (derogatory))
- bambus noun (black person (derogatory))
- czarnuch noun (black person (derogatory))
Portuguese
3 entries- crioulo noun (black person (derogatory))
- macaco noun (black person (derogatory))
- preto noun (black person (derogatory))
Romanian
2 entries- cioară noun (black person (derogatory))
- negrotei noun (black person (derogatory))
Russian
4 entries- негрито́с noun (black person (derogatory))
- негрито́ска noun (black person (derogatory))
- ни́ггер noun (black person (derogatory))
- черножо́пый noun (black person (derogatory))
Slovak
1 entries- neger noun (black person (derogatory))
Spanish
4 entries- gorila noun (black person (derogatory))
- mayate noun (black person (derogatory))
- mona noun (black person (derogatory))
- mono noun (black person (derogatory))
Swedish
3 entries- neger noun (black person (derogatory))
- nigger noun (black person (derogatory))
- svarting noun (black person (derogatory))
Turkish
2 entries- gündüz feneri noun (black person (derogatory))
- zenci noun (black person (derogatory))
Urdu
4 entries- حبشن noun (black person (derogatory))
- حبشی noun (black person (derogatory))
- کالا noun (black person (derogatory))
- کالو noun (black person (derogatory))
Vietnamese
1 entries- mọi đen noun (black person (derogatory))
Yiddish
2 entries- שוואַרצע noun (black person (derogatory))
- שוואַרצער noun (black person (derogatory))
Sample sentences
55 total sentences available.
He's a nigger.
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"Nigger" is an offensive word.
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There's a nigger in the woodpile.
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Showing 4 of 55 available sentences.