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Filippines

Filippines is the misspelling of Philippines.

Meaning of Philippines

Proper noun

the Philippines

  1. An archipelago of Southeast Asia.
  2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Philippines. Capital: Manila.
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    Synonyms:
    Filippines, Pilipinas, Pinas

Origin of Filippines

A hypercorrection of Philippines using F from its earlier etymon, Spanish Filipinas, for the sake of a similar equivalent to the unanglicized demonym, Filipino.

Questions about Filippines

What is Filippines the misspelling of?
Filippines is the misspelling of Philippines.

Words near Filippines in the dictionary

  1. Filipowiczes
  2. Filipowski
  3. Filippelli
  4. Filippellis
  5. Filippi
  6. Filippines
  7. Filippini
  8. Filippinis
  9. Filippis
  10. Filippone
  11. Filippones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Filippines (page history and authors); Philippines (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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