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Wikipaedia

Wikipaedia is the alternative spelling of Wikipedia.

Meaning of Wikipedia

Proper noun

Wikipedia (plural Wikipedias)

  1. A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • He joined Wikipedia two years ago.
  2. (metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.
    • In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.2011 May 23, The New York Times
  3. A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).

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Origin of Wikipaedia

An adaptation of Wikipedia to British spelling by analogy to encyclopaedia.

Questions about Wikipaedia

What is Wikipaedia the alternative spelling of?
Wikipaedia is the alternative spelling of Wikipedia.

Words near Wikipaedia in the dictionary

  1. Wikinewsie
  2. Wikinewsies
  3. Wiking
  4. Wikings
  5. wikinomics
  6. Wikipaedia
  7. wikipage
  8. wikipages
  9. wikipedia
  10. Wikipedia food
  11. wikipediaed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Wikipaedia (page history and authors); Wikipedia (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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