dramatis personae
The verdict
“dramatis personae” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dramatis-personae · dramatis personae · French
dramatis personae · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dramatis personae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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dramatis personae is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dramatis personae in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dramatis personae, spelled D-R-A-M-A-T-I-S- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A-E.
Definition
- 1Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dramatis personae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scène d’exposition montre Agrippine que la dramatis personae identifie comme un personnage de haut rang, « veuve de Domitius Enobarbus , père de Néron , et en secondes noces de l'empereur Claudius » contrainte d'attendre en vain devant la chambre de son fils Néron.
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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.