personne
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#149
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
personne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Être humain considéré en tant qu’individu. Pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔn\. It ranks #149 in French word frequency. Often confused with personnes and personnel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | personne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for personne is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.sɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #149 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for personne, with forms such as "eprsonne", "perosnne", and "perrsonne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "personnes", "personnel", "personnels", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 personne, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être humain considéré en tant qu’individu.
- 2Individu ou entité consciente d'elle-même et à laquelle on reconnaît des droits.
- 3Rôle que tient la personne ou la chose en cause dans l’acte d’énonciation.
- 4Précédé d’un adjectif possessif, se dit de la vie, du corps, du physique de celui qui parle, à qui l’on parle, ou dont on parle.
- 5Personnage.
- 6Se dit, dans certaines locutions, des femmes seulement.
- 7Se dit quelquefois d’un homme ou d’une femme, considérés en eux-mêmes.
- 8Sert, dans certaines expressions, à donner plus de force, d’ampleur, de solennité à ce que l’on dit.
- 9Sujet de droits, doué de capacité et responsable.
- 10Hypostase divine, dans la théologie chrétienne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprsonne,perosnne,perrsonne,persnone,persone,personen,perssonne,pesronne,ppersonne,presonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for personne
Misspelling Variants of "personne"
Frequency rank: #149 in French
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