Three lexemes with a relative high token frequency are of Portuguese origin:
kiláya ‘how’ < Portuguese que laia ‘what kind’; ele < Portuguese ele ‘s/he’; and na, a multifunctional locative preposition, < Portuguese na, which is a merger of the preposition em ‘in’ and the feminine singular article a (see Steinkrüger, Patrick O. 2013. Zamboanga Chabacano. In Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.), The survey of pidgin and creole languages. Vol. II: Portuguese-based, Spanish-based and French-based languages, 156-162. Oxford: Oxford University Press.)
There are many borrowings from Philippine (Visayan) languages and recently from English.