trata de personas

[ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]

/[ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]/ phrase

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 ...

Key facts for trata de personas
PropertyValue
Headwordtrata de personas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “trata de personas” sits in Spanish frequency

trata de personas falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 contra la voluntad y el bienestar del ser humano.

Synonyms

comercio de personastráfico humano

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trata de personas"?
"trata de personas" is spelled T-R-A-T-A- -D-E- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas].
What does "trata de personas" mean?
As a phrase, "trata de personas" means: 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 ...
How do you pronounce "trata de personas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trata de personas" is [ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “trata de personas”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as [ˈt̪ɾat̪a ð̞e peɾˈsonas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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