Filipina
/filiˈpinɐ/
"filipina" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Filipina” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,420
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.
Corpus desk
Index EN-filipina · Filipina · English
Filipina · rank #30,420 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fieldwork
Nearest frequency peer: fieldwork (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Filipina”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fennel
fennel
69,584 corpus weight
- fetching
fetching
69,583 corpus weight
- fieldwork
fieldwork
69,582 corpus weight
- Filipina
Filipina
69,581 corpus weight
- firework
firework
69,580 corpus weight
- firsts
firsts
69,579 corpus weight
What this shows “Filipina” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Filipina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /filiˈpinɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Filipina”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Filipina (IPA /filiˈpinɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,420 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Filipina, with forms such as "ffilipina", "fiilpina", and "filiipna". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Filipino", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish filipina f (feminine form of filipino). The correct English form is Filipina, spelled F-I-L-I-P-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.
- 2A female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Filipina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recently, the police station at Nei-Hu district arrested about ten Filipina domestics and nursing workers who ran away from their employers.
Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish filipina f (feminine form of filipino).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilipina
- fiilpina
- filiipna
- filipian
- filipinna
- filipnia
- filippina
- fillipina
- filpiina
- fliipina
- iflipina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Filipina - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Filipina", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).