personal

[peɾsoˈnal]

/[peɾsoˈnal]/ adj

The verdict

“personal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #422. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#422
frequency rank, Spanish
6,028
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de o relacionado con la persona.

Corpus desk

Index ES-personal · personal · Spanish

personal · rank #422 · 12 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #422
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,028
  • PHOTO-FINISH ninguna

Nearest frequency peer: ninguna (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “personal”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “personal” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

personal vs personas
88% similar
personal vs personales
80% similar
personal vs person
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for personal
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonal
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[peɾsoˈnal]
Letters8
Frequency rank#422
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “personal”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.personalcae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “ninguna” (#421), “total” (#423), “trata” (#424). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “personal” va en #422. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around personal (IPA [peɾsoˈnal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #422 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for personal, with forms such as "eprsonal", "perosnal", and "perrsonal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "personas", "personales", "person", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is personal, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propio de o relacionado con la persona.
  2. 2
    Perteneciente o dirigido a una persona en particular.
  3. 3
    Forma específica para una de las personas en la conjugación de un verbo.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. "juegas" es una forma personal (se refiere a "tú"), pero "jugando" es una forma no personal

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprsonal
  • perosnal
  • perrsonal
  • persnoal
  • persoanl
  • personall
  • personla
  • personnal
  • perssonal
  • pesronal
  • ppersonal
  • presonal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of personal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

eprsonal2perosnal2perrsonal1persnoal2persoanl2personall1personla2personnal1
Edit distance from "personal"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personal"?
"personal" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾsoˈnal].
What does "personal" mean?
As an adjective, "personal" means: Propio de o relacionado con la persona.
What words are commonly confused with "personal"?
"personal" is commonly confused with "personas", "personales", "person". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "personal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personal" is [peɾsoˈnal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personal" come from?
"personal" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "personal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list