principe

1. 1.

   an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe

   Broaderisland

   Part ofSao Tome and Principe

Other forms of principe

plural

principes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about principe

What does principe mean?

principe means "an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe".

How many syllables are in principe?

principe has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /pɹinˈtʃipi/.

Is principe a common word?

principe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.