Personalwesen

[pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩]

/[pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩]/ noun

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The verdict

“Personalwesen” is uncommon German (frequency #70,665 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,665
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit den Beschäftigten befasster Bereich eines Unternehmens, einer Behörde oder einer staatlichen Einrichtung

Corpus desk

Index DE-personalwesen · Personalwesen · German

Personalwesen · rank #70,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,665
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH personalisiert

Nearest frequency peer: personalisiert (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Personalwesen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Personalwesen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Personalwesen
PropertyValue
HeadwordPersonalwesen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩]
Letters13
Frequency rank#70,665
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Personalwesen“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Personalwesenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „personalisiert“ (#70,664), „Perspektivwechsel“ (#70,666), „Personalberater“ (#70,663). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Personalwesen“ bei #70,665. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Personalwesen is uncommon German at frequency #70,665 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit den Beschäftigten befasster Bereich eines Unternehmens, einer Behörde oder einer staatlichen Einrichtung".

Personalwesen has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Personalwesen, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-W-E-S-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    mit den Beschäftigten befasster Bereich eines Unternehmens, einer Behörde oder einer staatlichen Einrichtung

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Personalwesen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Dort bekleidete sie bis 1983 eine leitende Funktion im Personalwesen.“

Synonyms

PersonalmanagementPersonalwirtschaft

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Personalwesen"?
"Personalwesen" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-W-E-S-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩].
What does "Personalwesen" mean?
As a noun, "Personalwesen" means: mit den Beschäftigten befasster Bereich eines Unternehmens, einer Behörde oder einer staatlichen Einrichtung
How do you pronounce "Personalwesen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Personalwesen" is [pɛʁzoˈnaːlˌveːzn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Personalwesen" come from?
"Personalwesen" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Personalwesen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list