personages
/ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒɪz/
"personages" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“personages” is uncommon English (frequency #62,406 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,406
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of personage
Corpus desk
Index EN-personages · personages · English
personages · rank #62,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,406
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH persuasively
Nearest frequency peer: persuasively (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “personages”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pella
Pella
37,599 corpus weight
- peppery
peppery
37,598 corpus weight
- Perelman
Perelman
37,597 corpus weight
- personages
personages
37,595 corpus weight
- persuasively
persuasively
37,594 corpus weight
- Phoebus
Phoebus
37,590 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “personages” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | personages |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒɪz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “personages” in English
Rare enough to double-check
personages is uncommon English at frequency #62,406 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of personage".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for personages, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is personages, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of personage
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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