personable
/ˈpɜːsn̩əbl/
"personable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“personable” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,332
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-personable · personable · English
personable · rank #42,332 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,332
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH personalize
Nearest frequency peer: personalize (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “personable”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Pattaya
Pattaya
57,675 corpus weight
- peacemaker
peacemaker
57,673 corpus weight
- personable
personable
57,669 corpus weight
- personalize
personalize
57,668 corpus weight
- perturbed
perturbed
57,667 corpus weight
- Phoenician
Phoenician
57,664 corpus weight
What this shows “personable” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | personable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpɜːsn̩əbl/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “personable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around personable (IPA /ˈpɜːsn̩əbl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,332 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for personable, with forms such as "eprsonable", "perosnable", and "perrsonable". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "personal", "personals", "personally", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English personable, personabil (“having a pleasing appearance, handsome”), and then from both of the following: * For sense 1 (“having a pleasing appearance”) and sense 2 (“having a pleasant manner”) (these senses are not found in Old Frenc… The correct English form is personable, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.
- 2Of a person: having a pleasant manner; amiable, friendly.
- 3Synonym of personal (“done in person, without an intermediary”).
- 4Being a legal person and thus able to maintain a plea in court, or to hold some property or right.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how personable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I vvas Tall and Perſonable, but a little too ſmooth Fac'd for a Man; hovvever as I ſeldom vvent Abroad, but in the Night it did vvell enough; […]
I admit him a personable man, for I have seen him; and I will suppose him courteous and agreeable.
Etymology
From Late Middle English personable, personabil (“having a pleasing appearance, handsome”), and then from both of the following: * For sense 1 (“having a pleasing appearance”) and sense 2 (“having a pleasant manner”) (these senses are not found in Old French or Medieval Latin), probably from person, personne, persoun (“individual, person”) + -āble (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’ forming adjectives). * For sense 3.1 (“synonym of personal”) and sense 3.2 (“being a legal person”), from Middle French personable and Old French personable, and from their etymon Medieval Latin personābilis (“personal”), possibly from Medieval Latin persōna (“person”) + Latin -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). By surface analysis, person + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsonable
- perosnable
- perrsonable
- persnoable
- persoanble
- personabble
- personabel
- personablle
- personalbe
- personbale
- personible
- personnable
- perssonable
- pesronable
- ppersonable
- presonable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of personable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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