el país del Tío Sam
The verdict
“el país del Tío Sam” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: País conformado por una federación de 50 estados ubicados en América del Norte. Su capital es Washington. El gentilicio es estadounidense.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | el país del Tío Sam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [el paˈis ð̞el̪ ˈt̪io ˈsãm] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “el país del Tío Sam” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for el país del Tío Sam is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [el paˈis ð̞el̪ ˈt̪io ˈsãm]. 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: "País conformado por una federación de 50 estados ubicados en América del Norte. Su capital es Washington. El gentilicio es estadounidense.".
No misspelling variants are generated for el país del Tío Sam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish 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 Spanish form is el país del Tío Sam, spelled E-L- -P-A-Í-S- -D-E-L- -T-Í-O- -S-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1País conformado por una federación de 50 estados ubicados en América del Norte. Su capital es Washington. El gentilicio es estadounidense.
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Using “el país del Tío Sam”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L- -P-A-Í-S- -D-E-L- -T-Í-O- -S-A-M — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [el paˈis ð̞el̪ ˈt̪io ˈsãm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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