pessoa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#235
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
pessoa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: indivíduo consciente de si e distinto dos demais Pronounced /pɨ.ˈso.ɐ/. It ranks #235 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pressa and pessoal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pessoa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈso.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pessoa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨ.ˈso.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #235 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pessoa, with forms such as "epssoa", "pesoa", and "pesosa". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "pressa", "pessoal", "passa", 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 Portuguese form is pessoa, spelled P-E-S-S-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1indivíduo consciente de si e distinto dos demais
- 2individualidade
- 3a função social desempenhado por um ser humano
- 4um dos constituintes da Santíssima Trindade; atributo divino do Deus cristão que, embora único em sua essência, assume três individualidades distintas: o Pai, o Filho e o Espírito Santo
- 5entidade que a lei reconhece como sendo capaz de processar outra ou ser processada; os dois tipos mais comuns são pessoa física e pessoa jurídica
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epssoa,pesoa,pesosa,pessao,ppessoa,psesoa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pessoa
Misspelling Variants of "pessoa"
Frequency rank: #235 in Portuguese
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