São Tomé e Príncipe
The verdict
“São Tomé e Príncipe” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: país formado por um arquipélago no Golfo da Guiné, em que o português é língua oficial; suas principais ilhas são: São Tomé e Príncipe; nome oficial: República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | São Tomé e Príncipe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /sɐ͂w to.ˈmɛ i ˈpɾĩ.si.pi/ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “São Tomé e Príncipe” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for São Tomé e Príncipe is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɐ͂w to.ˈmɛ i ˈpɾĩ.si.pi/. 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 formado por um arquipélago no Golfo da Guiné, em que o português é língua oficial; suas principais ilhas são: São Tomé e Príncipe; nome oficial: República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe".
No misspelling variants are generated for São Tomé e Príncipe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese 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 Portuguese form is São Tomé e Príncipe, spelled S-Ã-O- -T-O-M-É- -E- -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
- 1país formado por um arquipélago no Golfo da Guiné, em que o português é língua oficial; suas principais ilhas são: São Tomé e Príncipe; nome oficial: República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe
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Using “São Tomé e Príncipe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-Ã-O- -T-O-M-É- -E- -P-R-Í-N-C-I-P-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɐ͂w to.ˈmɛ i ˈpɾĩ.si.pi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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