Personalakte
[pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌʔaktə]
The verdict
“Personalakte” is uncommon German (frequency #71,705 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,705
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mit Angaben und Unterlagen zu einer Person angelegte Akte
Corpus desk
Index DE-personalakte · Personalakte · German
Personalakte · rank #71,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,705
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH persischer
Nearest frequency peer: persischer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Personalakte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- perfiden
perfiden
28,299 corpus weight
- Pergola
Pergola
28,298 corpus weight
- persischer
persischer
28,297 corpus weight
- Personalakte
Personalakte
28,296 corpus weight
- peruanische
peruanische
28,295 corpus weight
- perverses
perverses
28,294 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Personalakte” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Personalakte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌʔaktə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Personalakte” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Personalakte is uncommon German at frequency #71,705 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌʔaktə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit Angaben und Unterlagen zu einer Person angelegte Akte".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Personalakte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Personalakte, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-A-K-T-E.
Definition
- 1mit Angaben und Unterlagen zu einer Person angelegte Akte
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Personalakte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.