You can make 33 words from people according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of people
people
Alternative forms
peeps, peops(slang)
peple(obsolete)
pipple(pronunciation spelling)
ppl, ppl.
Etymology
From Middle Englishpuple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Normanpeople, from Old Frenchpueple, peuple, pople, from Latinpopulus(“a people, nation”), from Old Latinpopulus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic*poplos(“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native Englishlede and, partially, folk.
Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle Englishlede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈpiːpəl/, /ˈpiːpl̩/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈpipəl/, /ˈpipl̩/, [ˈpʰipɫ̩]
Homophone: papal(some dialects)
Hyphenation: peo‧ple
Rhymes: -iːpəl
Noun
people (countable and uncountable, pluralpeoples)
plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
c. 1607, plaque recording the Bristol Channel floods:
XXII people was in this parrish drownd.
(countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
Synonyms:collective, community, congregation, folk
Coordinate term:(sometimes synonymous)nation
A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
Synonyms:fans, groupies, supporters
1952,Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Isaiah 1:3:
The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.
One's colleagues or employees.
A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
Synonyms:kin, kith, folks
The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
Synonyms:populace, commoners, citizenry
Usage notes
The word people today takes a plural verb in most senses.
Nowadays, persons as the plural of person is considered highly formal. Several major style guides recommend people rather than persons. For example, the Associated Press and the New York Times recommend people except in quotations and set phrases. Under the traditional distinction, which Garner says is pedantic, persons describes a finite, known number of individuals, rather than the collective term people. Persons remains in use in technical and legal contexts.
Derived terms
Descendants
Jamaican Creole: piipl
Pijin: pipol
Sranan Tongo: pipel
Tok Pisin: pipel
Translations
See also
sheeple
Verb
people (third-person singular simple presentpeoples, present participlepeopling, simple past and past participlepeopled)
(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
(intransitive) To become populous or populated.
(transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
a.1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8:
[…] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]
(rare, informal) To interact with people; to socialize.
Usage notes
The informal interaction sense is chiefly used in the negative.
Derived terms
peopler
Translations
References
“people”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
People on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
People in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
“people”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Peploe
French
Alternative forms
pipole
Etymology
Since 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip. Doublet of peuple and pueblo.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pi.pɔl/, /pi.pœl/
Noun
peoplem or f by sense (pluralpeople)
(countable) a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)
Synonyms:célébrité, personne connue, personnalité, personnage public
2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique(Romantic Egotism)"), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, →ISBN, page 95:
Usage notes
The French noun people is frequently italicized as a loanword, as in the quotations above.
Derived terms
pipolisation
Noun
peoplem (uncountable)
(uncountable) showbusiness, popular media that feature stories on celebrities and famous people (as represented by magazines such as People, (UK) Hello!, (France) Paris Match)
Middle English
Noun
people
Alternative form of peple
Old French
Noun
peopleoblique singular, m (oblique pluralpeoples, nominative singularpeoples, nominative pluralpeople)
(Anglo-Norman)Alternative form of pueple
References
pople_1 in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022