philippines

Other forms of philippines

plural

philippineses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about philippines

What does philippines mean?

philippines means "a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in philippines?

philippines has 3 syllables: philip-pi-nes. The stress falls on "philip". In IPA it is /ˈfɪləˌpinz/.

What is another word for philippines?

Close synonyms include Republic of the Philippines, Philippine Islands. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is philippines a common word?

philippines is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.