Personalie
[pɛʁzoˈnaːli̯ə]
The verdict
“Personalie” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #45,505 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #45,505
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - amtliche Angaben zu spezifischen Eigenschaften einer Person
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Personalie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛʁzoˈnaːli̯ə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Personalie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Personalie is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɛʁzoˈnaːli̯ə]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,505 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Personalie, with forms such as "eprsonalie", "perosnalie", and "perrsonalie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Personals", "personelle", "Personalien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Personalie, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1amtliche Angaben zu spezifischen Eigenschaften einer Person
- 2Ausweispapier(e) mit den Angaben zu einer Person
- 3Entscheidung über die Verwendung einer Person für eine bestimmte Aufgabe
- 4einzelne Angabe zu einer bestimmten persönlichen Eigenschaft/einem bestimmten persönlichen Umstand
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprsonalie,perosnalie,perrsonalie,persnoalie,persoanlie,personaile,personalei,personallie,personlaie,personnalie,perssonalie,pesronalie,ppersonalie,presonalie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Personalie - 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.
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Using “Personalie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɛʁzoˈnaːli̯ə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Personals” - see the side-by-side comparison. Personalie vs Personals
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.