philippine
/ˈfɪlɪpiːn/adjective
philippine is spelled P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is phillipine: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Philippine is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of Philippine”.
How many letters and syllables are in philippine?
| Letters | 10: P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phillipine, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell philippine?
Philippine is spelled P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for philippine in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is philippine?
Philippine appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce philippine?
- /ˈfɪlɪpiːn/
- /ˈfɪləpiːn/
- /ˈfɪlɪpaɪn/
Philippine has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Philippine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does philippine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of Philippine.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the Philippines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).