Singapore

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The English entry for Singapore is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɪŋəpɔː/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,983 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony and state of Malaysia (1963-1965). Official name: Republic of Sing...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Singapore, with forms such as "isngapore", "signapore", and "sinagpore". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Singaporean", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + पुर (pura, “city”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Singapore, spelled S-I-N-G-A-P-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.