personaje

/[peɾsoˈnaxe]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,418

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

personaje is aSpanishnoun. It means: Individuo que interviene en una obra literaria o de ficción. Pronounced [peɾsoˈnaxe]. It ranks #1,418 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with personas and personal.

Key facts for personaje
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonaje
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[peɾsoˈnaxe]
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,418
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of personaje in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for personaje is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsoˈnaxe]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,418 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for personaje, with forms such as "eprsonaje", "perosnaje", and "perrsonaje". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "personas", "personal", "personajes", 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 personaje, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-J-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Individuo que interviene en una obra literaria o de ficción.
  2. 2
    Persona distinguida o de notoriedad pública.
  3. 3
    Persona peculiar. Ser todo un personaje.
  4. 4
    Beneficio eclesiástico que se puede compaginar con algún otro.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprsonaje,perosnaje,perrsonaje,persnoaje,persoanje,personaej,personajje,personjae,personnaje,perssonaje,pesronaje,ppersonaje,presonaje

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for personaje

Misspelling Variants of "personaje"

eprsonaje9perosnaje9perrsonaje10persnoaje9persoanje9personaej9personajje10personjae9
Misspelling Variants of "personaje"

Frequency rank: #1,418 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personaje"?
"personaje" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-J-E. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾsoˈnaxe].
What does "personaje" mean?
As a noun, "personaje" means: Individuo que interviene en una obra literaria o de ficción.
What words are commonly confused with "personaje"?
"personaje" is commonly confused with "personas", "personal", "personajes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "personaje"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personaje" is [peɾsoˈnaxe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personaje" come from?
"personaje" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.