Cape St. George

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Cape St. George is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkeɪp ˈseɪnt ˈdʒɔɹdʒ/. 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: "A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Cape St. George in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English 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.

Etymologically, the entry records: Calque of Spanish Cabo de San Jorge, derived in turn from cabo (“cape”) and the name of Saint George. The town is named after the cape. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Cape St. George, spelled C-A-P-E- -S-T-.- -G-E-O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.