personalise
"personalise" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“personalise” is uncommon English (frequency #78,935 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,935
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of personalize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-personalise · personalise · English
personalise · rank #78,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,935
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pentobarbital
Nearest frequency peer: pentobarbital (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “personalise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pentameter
pentameter
21,069 corpus weight
- pentobarbit…
pentobarbital
21,068 corpus weight
- personalise
personalise
21,066 corpus weight
- photorealis…
photorealistic
21,064 corpus weight
- piledriver
piledriver
21,063 corpus weight
- pilings
pilings
21,062 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “personalise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | personalise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “personalise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
personalise is uncommon English at frequency #78,935 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of personalize.".
No misspelling variants are generated for personalise in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From personal + -ise. The correct English form is personalise, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of personalize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how personalise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.
Etymology
From personal + -ise.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).