personas

/[peɾˈsonas]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#111

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

personas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de persona. Pronounced [peɾˈsonas]. It ranks #111 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with peruanas and persas.

Key facts for personas
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[peɾˈsonas]
Letters8
Frequency rank#111
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for personas is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾˈsonas]. Corpus data places it at rank #111 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de persona.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for personas, with forms such as "eprsonas", "perosnas", and "perrsonas". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "peruanas", "persas", "person", 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 personas, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de persona.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprsonas,perosnas,perrsonas,persnoas,persoans,personass,personnas,personsa,perssonas,pesronas,ppersonas,presonas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for personas

Misspelling Variants of "personas"

eprsonas8perosnas8perrsonas9persnoas8persoans8personass9personnas9personsa8
Misspelling Variants of "personas"

Frequency rank: #111 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personas"?
"personas" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾˈsonas].
What does "personas" mean?
As a noun, "personas" means: Forma del plural de persona.
What words are commonly confused with "personas"?
"personas" is commonly confused with "peruanas", "persas", "person". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "personas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personas" is [peɾˈsonas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personas" come from?
"personas" 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.