Philippines
[fi.li.pin]
The verdict
“Philippines” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,679 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,679
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filipinas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-philippines · Philippines · Spanish
Philippines · rank #69,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,679
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH petty
Nearest frequency peer: petty (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Philippines”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pernicioso
pernicioso
30,326 corpus weight
- Perugia
Perugia
30,325 corpus weight
- pesaje
pesaje
30,324 corpus weight
- petty
petty
30,323 corpus weight
- Philippines
Philippines
30,322 corpus weight
- planchada
planchada
30,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Philippines” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Philippines |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [fi.li.pin] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Philippines” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Philippines is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,679 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [fi.li.pin]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filipinas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Philippines, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Philippines, spelled P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Filipinas.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).