Taipeh
[ˈtaɪ̯pe]
The verdict
“Taipeh” is an uncommon German word, ranked #63,831 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #63,831
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Taiwan
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taipeh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaɪ̯pe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Taipeh” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Taipeh is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaɪ̯pe]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,831 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hauptstadt von Taiwan".
Taipeh has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Taipeh, spelled T-A-I-P-E-H.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Taiwan
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Taipeh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-A-I-P-E-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈtaɪ̯pe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.