personally
/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/adverb
personally is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is personaly: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Personally is an adverb meaning “In a personal manner”.
How many letters and syllables are in personally?
| Letters | 10: P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, personaly, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell personally?
Personally is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-L-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for personally in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is personally?
Personally appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce personally?
- UK /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/
- UK /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/
- UK /ˈpɜː.sən.li/
Personally has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-personally.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-personally.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of personally
- more personally comparative
- most personally superlative
- personly
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does personally mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a personal manner.
- 2
In person.
- 3
Concerning oneself.
I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
- 4
As a person.
I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate personally?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of personally: pers..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Personally in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | personnellement |
| Portuguese | pessoalmente |
| Spanish | personalmente |
| German | persönlich, personaliter |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does personally come from?
From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).