personage

Other forms of personage

plural

personages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about personage

What does personage mean?

personage means "another word for person; a person not meriting identification". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in personage?

personage has 3 syllables: per-so-nage. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for personage?

Close synonyms include important person, influential person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personage a common word?

personage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.