dramatis personae

noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dramatis personae is aFrenchnoun. It means: Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.

Key facts for dramatis personae
PropertyValue
Headworddramatis personae
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dramatis personae is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dramatis personae is 17 letters long, classified as anoun. 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: "Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dramatis personae in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is dramatis personae, spelled D-R-A-M-A-T-I-S- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dramatis personae"?
"dramatis personae" is spelled D-R-A-M-A-T-I-S- -P-E-R-S-O-N-A-E.
What does "dramatis personae" mean?
As a noun, "dramatis personae" means: Liste des noms de rôles qui figure au début d'une pièce imprimée.
What language does "dramatis personae" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.