personal

\pɛʁzoˈnaːl\

/\pɛʁzoˈnaːl\/ adj

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The verdict

“personal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,289
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnel, personnelle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-personal · personal · French

personal · rank #28,289 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,289
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Perrot

Nearest frequency peer: Perrot (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « personal »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « personal » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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 personne
75% similar
personal vs personnel
78% similar
personal vs Person
63% similar

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

Key facts for personal
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɛʁzoˈnaːl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,289
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « personal »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).personalse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Perrot » (#28,288), « perverse » (#28,290), « perdition » (#28,287). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « personal » est au #28,289. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around personal (IPA \pɛʁzoˈnaːl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,289 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personnel, personnelle.".

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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "personne", "personnel", "Person", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is personal, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personnel, personnelle.

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 French 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 \pɛʁzoˈnaːl\.
What does "personal" mean?
As an adjective, "personal" means: Personnel, personnelle.
What words are commonly confused with "personal"?
"personal" is commonly confused with "personne", "personnel", "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 \pɛʁzoˈnaːl\. 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 French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

perverse#28,290pleuvait#28,293plongent#28,294passerez#28,283

Similar misspelling depth

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

parviens12 variantsparmesan12 variantsocéanique12 variantspâturage12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list