personal capital

noun

"personal-capital" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“personal capital” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.

Corpus desk

Index EN-personal-capital · personal capital · English

personal capital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for personal capital
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonal capital
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “personal capital” in English

personal capitalsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

personal capital is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for personal capital, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is personal capital, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L- -C-A-P-I-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.
  2. 2
    Good reputation, credibility, or influence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Having two unsold houses on the market for a long time "has eaten a lot of our personal capital," Alexander said.
  2. He could spend shareholders’ capital acquiring massive stretches of land, then only put up his own personal capital to invest in the wells drilled into the best parts of those plays.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personal capital"?
"personal capital" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L- -C-A-P-I-T-A-L.
What does "personal capital" mean?
As a noun, "personal capital" means: Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.
What language does "personal capital" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list