Sao Tomé-et-Principe
The verdict
“Sao Tomé-et-Principe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Archipel et pays de l’Atlantique Nord au large des côtes du Gabon dans le golfe de Guinée. Sa capitale est São Tomé. L’Ilheu das Rolas (l’île des Tourterelles), petit îlot face à la pointe sud de S...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sao Tomé-et-Principe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.o tɔ.me.e.pʁin.si.pe\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sao Tomé-et-Principe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Sao Tomé-et-Principe is 20 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.o tɔ.me.e.pʁin.si.pe\. 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: "Archipel et pays de l’Atlantique Nord au large des côtes du Gabon dans le golfe de Guinée. Sa capitale est São Tomé. L’Ilheu das Rolas (l’île des Tourterelles), petit îlot face à la pointe sud de S...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sao Tomé-et-Principe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is Sao Tomé-et-Principe, spelled S-A-O- -T-O-M-É---E-T---P-R-I-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
- 1Archipel et pays de l’Atlantique Nord au large des côtes du Gabon dans le golfe de Guinée. Sa capitale est São Tomé. L’Ilheu das Rolas (l’île des Tourterelles), petit îlot face à la pointe sud de São Tomé, est traversé par l’équateur.
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Using “Sao Tomé-et-Principe”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-O- -T-O-M-É---E-T---P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.o tɔ.me.e.pʁin.si.pe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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