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kipu

kipu is the alternative form of quipu.

Meaning of quipu

Noun

quipu (plural quipus)

  1. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
    • Among a cache of 21 quipus recovered from a house, probably that of the chief quipu keeper, seven are clearly related in a three-tier accounting hierarchy.2005 August 16, Nicholas Wade, “Those Ancient Incan Knots? Tax Accounting, Researchers Suggest”, in The New York Times

Forms of kipu

pluralkipus

Questions about kipu

What is kipu the alternative form of?
Kipu is the alternative form of quipu.

Words near kipu in the dictionary

  1. Kipsikiis
  2. kipskin
  3. kipskins
  4. kipsy
  5. kipsying
  6. kipu
  7. kipuka
  8. kipukas
  9. kipunji
  10. kipunjis
  11. kipus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kipu (page history and authors); quipu (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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