tercera persona
The verdict
“tercera persona” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona gramatical que hace referencia a una persona que no es la que habla ni aquella a quien se habla. Algunos pronombres de tercera persona son: él, ellos, ella, ellas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tercera persona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪eɾˈseɾa peɾˈsona] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tercera persona” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tercera persona is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾˈseɾa peɾˈsona]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tercera persona in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tercera persona, spelled T-E-R-C-E-R-A- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona gramatical que hace referencia a una persona que no es la que habla ni aquella a quien se habla. Algunos pronombres de tercera persona son: él, ellos, ella, ellas.
- 2Entidad o individuo que no se incluye en un asunto o negocio entre dos (como una relación de pareja o un conflicto entre litigantes), pero a quien se alude por tener algún tipo de implicación.
- 3Persona que media entre otras.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-R-C-E-R-A- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eɾˈseɾa peɾˈsona] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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