plebe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,791
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
plebe is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estamento de la sociedad de la antigua Roma, formado por personas libres pero carentes de los privilegios religiosos y políticos de los patricios Pronounced [ˈpleβ̞e]. Often confused with puede and pleno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plebe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpleβ̞e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for plebe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpleβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,791 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for plebe, with forms such as "lpebe", "pelbe", and "plbee". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "puede", "pleno", "plena", 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 plebe, spelled P-L-E-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estamento de la sociedad de la antigua Roma, formado por personas libres pero carentes de los privilegios religiosos y políticos de los patricios
- 2Por analogía, estamento de la sociedad medieval, formado por quienes no integraban el clero ni la nobleza
- 3Por extensión, conjunto de las capas populares de una sociedad, aunque no sea esta estamentaria
- 4Niño, chico, joven, inexperto
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpebe,pelbe,plbee,plebbe,pleeb,pleve,pllebe,pplebe
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Misspelling Variants of "plebe"
Frequency rank: #29,791 in Spanish
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