São Tomé und Príncipe
The verdict
“São Tomé und Príncipe” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Staat im Golf von Guinea vor der Küste Westafrikas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | São Tomé und Príncipe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsaːu toˈmeː ʊnt ˈpʁɪnsipə] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “São Tomé und Príncipe” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for São Tomé und Príncipe is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsaːu toˈmeː ʊnt ˈpʁɪnsipə]. 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: "Staat im Golf von Guinea vor der Küste Westafrikas".
No misspelling variants are generated for São Tomé und Príncipe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is São Tomé und Príncipe, spelled S-Ã-O- -T-O-M-É- -U-N-D- -P-R-Í-N-C-I-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Staat im Golf von Guinea vor der Küste Westafrikas
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-Ã-O- -T-O-M-É- -U-N-D- -P-R-Í-N-C-I-P-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsaːu toˈmeː ʊnt ˈpʁɪnsipə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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