République de Chine
\ʁe.py.blik də ʃin\
The verdict
“République de Chine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Entité politique créée en 1912 avec pour capitale Nankin, qui revendique la souveraineté sur l’ensemble de la Chine et qui, depuis la fondation de la République populaire de Chine en 1949, n’a dans...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | République de Chine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.py.blik də ʃin\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “République de Chine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for République de Chine is 19 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.py.blik də ʃin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Entité politique créée en 1912 avec pour capitale Nankin, qui revendique la souveraineté sur l’ensemble de la Chine et qui, depuis la fondation de la République populaire de Chine en 1949, n’a dans...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for République de Chine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is République de Chine, spelled R-É-P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Entité politique créée en 1912 avec pour capitale Nankin, qui revendique la souveraineté sur l’ensemble de la Chine et qui, depuis la fondation de la République populaire de Chine en 1949, n’a dans les faits autorité que sur l’île de Taïwan et les îles avoisinantes.
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Using “République de Chine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-É-P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁe.py.blik də ʃin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.