Personalausweis
[pɛʁzoˈnaːlʔaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s]
The verdict
“Personalausweis” has 22 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,018
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - amtlicher Ausweis mit Lichtbild, Unterschrift und Personalien des Inhabers
Corpus desk
Index DE-personalausweis · Personalausweis · German
Personalausweis · rank #21,018 · 22 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,018
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Patronen
Nearest frequency peer: Patronen (-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 “Personalausweis”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pappe
Pappe
78,986 corpus weight
- parts
parts
78,985 corpus weight
- Patronen
Patronen
78,984 corpus weight
- Personalaus…
Personalausweis
78,983 corpus weight
- Pfadfinder
Pfadfinder
78,982 corpus weight
- Physiologie
Physiologie
78,981 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Personalausweis” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Personalausweis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛʁzoˈnaːlʔaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #21,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Personalausweis” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around Personalausweis (IPA [pɛʁzoˈnaːlʔaʊ̯sˌvaɪ̯s]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,018 among 49,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "amtlicher Ausweis mit Lichtbild, Unterschrift und Personalien des Inhabers".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for Personalausweis, with forms such as "eprsonalausweis", "perosnalausweis", and "perrsonalausweis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 Personalausweis, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-A-U-S-W-E-I-S.
Definition
- 1amtlicher Ausweis mit Lichtbild, Unterschrift und Personalien des Inhabers
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsonalausweis
- perosnalausweis
- perrsonalausweis
- persnoalausweis
- persoanlausweis
- personaalusweis
- personalasuweis
- personalausewis
- personalaussweis
- personalausweiss
- personalauswesi
- personalauswies
- personalauswweis
- personalauwseis
- personallausweis
- personaluasweis
- personlaausweis
- personnalausweis
- perssonalausweis
- pesronalausweis
- ppersonalausweis
- presonalausweis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Personalausweis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Personalausweis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).
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.