personal

/[peɾsoˈnal]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#422

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

personal is anSpanishadj. It means: Propio de o relacionado con la persona. Pronounced [peɾsoˈnal]. It ranks #422 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with personas and personales.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of personal in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for personal is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsoˈnal]. Corpus data places it at rank #422 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for personal, with forms such as "eprsonal", "perosnal", and "perrsonal". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is personal, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for personal

Misspelling Variants of "personal"

eprsonal8perosnal8perrsonal9persnoal8persoanl8personall9personla8personnal9
Misspelling Variants of "personal"

Frequency rank: #422 in Spanish

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 adj, "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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Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.