persa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,469
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
persa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia. Pronounced [ˈpeɾsa]. Often confused with pes and peso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for persa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɾsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,469 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for persa, with forms such as "eprsa", "perrsa", and "perssa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pes", "peso", "pura", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 persa, spelled P-E-R-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprsa,perrsa,perssa,ppersa
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Misspelling Variants of "persa"
Frequency rank: #11,469 in Spanish
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