Republic of China
/ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/
"republic-of-china" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Republic of China” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Official name of Taiwan: a partly-recognized country in East Asia; the rump state left over from the Republic of China on the mainland after 1949.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Republic of China |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Republic of China” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Republic of China is 17 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for Republic of China in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Republic of China, spelled R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C- -O-F- -C-H-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Official name of Taiwan: a partly-recognized country in East Asia; the rump state left over from the Republic of China on the mainland after 1949.
- 2Former official name of China: the country in East Asia that controlled the mainland of China from 1912 to 1949, which succeeded the Qing dynasty and preceded the People's Republic of China.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Republic of China”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C- -O-F- -C-H-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/ (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.