personals
"personals" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“personals” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,547
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of personal
Corpus desk
Index EN-personals · personals · English
personals · rank #49,547 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,547
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH periodicity
Nearest frequency peer: periodicity (-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 “personals”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- perfectioni…
perfectionism
50,457 corpus weight
- perforation
perforation
50,456 corpus weight
- periodicity
periodicity
50,455 corpus weight
- personals
personals
50,454 corpus weight
- phenolic
phenolic
50,452 corpus weight
- Phosphor
Phosphor
50,451 corpus weight
What this shows “personals” 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 | personals |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “personals”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around personals, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,547 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for personals, with forms such as "eprsonals", "perosnals", and "perrsonals". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "persons", "persona", "personal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is personals, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of personal
- 2Personal matters; matters which are peculiar or proper to private concerns.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how personals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"A pardon, Mr. Preston! Ah! A pardon, please!" the Englishman apologized at once. "I say, I did not intend to pry into personals, really," he protested. "And really, you know," he continued, "if you see how I meant it, it was not personal after all," he argued.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsonals
- perosnals
- perrsonals
- persnoals
- persoanls
- personalls
- personalss
- personasl
- personlas
- personnals
- perssonals
- pesronals
- ppersonals
- presonals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of personals - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "personals", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).