persona

\pɛʁ.so.na\

/\pɛʁ.so.na\/ noun

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The verdict

“persona” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,685
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masque porté par les acteurs dans l'Antiquité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-persona · persona · French

persona · rank #28,685 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,685
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH performantes

Nearest frequency peer: performantes (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « persona »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « persona » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

persona vs persos
71% similar
persona vs personne
75% similar
persona vs personal
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for persona
PropertyValue
Headwordpersona
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.so.na\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,685
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « persona »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).personase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « performantes » (#28,684), « personnaliser » (#28,686), « peluches » (#28,683). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « persona » est au #28,685. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around persona (IPA \pɛʁ.so.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,685 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for persona, with forms such as "eprsona", "perosna", and "perrsona". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "persos", "personne", "personal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is persona, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masque porté par les acteurs dans l'Antiquité.
  2. 2
    Dimension de la personne qui est donnée à voir aux autres dans ses interactions sociales, qui est différente du moi intime mais que le sujet pourrait confondre avec lui. (Plur. personae)
  3. 3
    Personne fictive utilisant un logiciel en développement, construite pour établir des parcours de navigation selon les différentes audiences cible.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how persona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En somme la persona correspond au rôle social que chaque personne joue, tel un masque qui colle à la peau et dont il est difficile de se débarrasser. […] Pour bien fonctionner socialement, l'individu se sent en effet obligé de jouer un rôle, voire plusieurs rôles. Car, parfois, plusieurs personae représentent différentes facettes d'un même moi. Par exempl…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprsona
  • perosna
  • perrsona
  • persnoa
  • persoan
  • personna
  • perssona
  • pesrona
  • ppersona
  • presona

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persona - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

eprsona2perosna2perrsona1persnoa2persoan2personna1perssona1pesrona2
Edit distance from "persona"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "persona"?
"persona" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.so.na\.
What does "persona" mean?
As a noun, "persona" means: Masque porté par les acteurs dans l'Antiquité.
What words are commonly confused with "persona"?
"persona" is commonly confused with "persos", "personne", "personal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "persona"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "persona" is \pɛʁ.so.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "persona" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "persona", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plongés#28,692pandore#28,677Ophélie#28,669pupitre#28,702

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

parrains10 variantsrefusez10 variantsMirabeau10 variantsrouvert10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list