estadounidense

International use

In Spanish, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (English: Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts), published by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, recommends the genderless term estadounidense (literally United Statesian, sometimes spelled as estadunidense), because americano/a also refers to all the inhabitants of the continents of North and South America. Norteamericano and norteamericana are also common. In Latin American Spanish colloquial speech, Americans may be referred to as gringos, but the word usually carries a disparaging connotation; in Spain and Argentina, a more common word with a similar meaning to gringo is yanqui (from the English Yankee).