trata de personas
[ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]
The verdict
“trata de personas” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Movimiento ilegal de seres humanos con propósitos de esclavitud laboral, mental, reproductiva, explotación sexual, trabajos forzados, extracción de órganos, o cualquier forma moderna de esclavitud ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trata de personas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trata de personas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for trata de personas is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Movimiento ilegal de seres humanos con propósitos de esclavitud laboral, mental, reproductiva, explotación sexual, trabajos forzados, extracción de órganos, o cualquier forma moderna de esclavitud ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for trata de personas 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 trata de personas, spelled T-R-A-T-A- -D-E- -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
- 1Movimiento ilegal de seres humanos con propósitos de esclavitud laboral, mental, reproductiva, explotación sexual, trabajos forzados, extracción de órganos, o cualquier forma moderna de esclavitud contra la voluntad y el bienestar del ser humano.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-R-A-T-A- -D-E- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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