personnalité

/\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,440

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

personnalité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui appartient essentiellement à la personne, ce qui lui est propre, ce qui fait qu’elle est elle-même, et non pas une autre. Pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. It ranks #2,440 in French word frequency. Often confused with personnalités and personnalisée.

Key facts for personnalité
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonnalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#2,440
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of personnalité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for personnalité is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,440 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for personnalité, with forms such as "eprsonnalité", "perosnnalité", and "perrsonnalité". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "personnalités", "personnalisée", "personnaliser", 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 French form is personnalité, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui appartient essentiellement à la personne, ce qui lui est propre, ce qui fait qu’elle est elle-même, et non pas une autre.
  2. 2
    Qualité de personne juridique.
  3. 3
    Ce qui est attaché à la personne.
  4. 4
    Personne connue.
  5. 5
    Caractère de ce qui est personnel, originalité.
  6. 6
    Défaut, vice d’une personne qui n’est occupée que d’elle-même, qui est égoïste ou peu sensible.
  7. 7
    Trait piquant, injurieux et personnel, contre quelqu’un.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprsonnalité,perosnnalité,perrsonnalité,persnonalité,personalité,personanlité,personnailté,personnalite,personnalitté,personnaliét,personnallité,personnaltié,personnlaité,perssonnalité,pesronnalité,ppersonnalité,presonnalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for personnalité

Misspelling Variants of "personnalité"

eprsonnalité12perosnnalité12perrsonnalité13persnonalité12personalité11personanlité12personnailté12personnalite12
Misspelling Variants of "personnalité"

Frequency rank: #2,440 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "personnalité"?
"personnalité" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\.
What does "personnalité" mean?
As a noun, "personnalité" means: Ce qui appartient essentiellement à la personne, ce qui lui est propre, ce qui fait qu’elle est elle-même, et non pas une autre.
What words are commonly confused with "personnalité"?
"personnalité" is commonly confused with "personnalités", "personnalisée", "personnaliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "personnalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personnalité" is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personnalité" come from?
"personnalité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.