personnification

\pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\

/\pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“personnification” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,626. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,626
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
22
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de personnifier, consistant à faire d’un être inanimé ou d’une abstraction un personnage réel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-personnification · personnification · French

personnification · rank #44,626 · 22 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,626
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 22 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perplexité

Nearest frequency peer: perplexité (-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 « personnification »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « personnification » 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
Key facts for personnification
PropertyValue
Headwordpersonnification
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters16
Frequency rank#44,626
Misspellings tracked22
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « personnification »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).personnificationse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perplexité » (#44,625), « pertuis » (#44,627), « peroxyde » (#44,624). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « personnification » est au #44,626. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 22 spelling variants around personnification (IPA \pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,626 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for personnification, with forms such as "eprsonnification", "perosnnification", and "perrsonnification". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is personnification, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de personnifier, consistant à faire d’un être inanimé ou d’une abstraction un personnage réel.
  2. 2
    Résultat de cette action.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On dit par personnification : être dans les bras de la mort, du sommeil.
  2. […] ; ces derniers chevaux, placés à côté des coursiers d’Orient, auraient pu passer pour la personnification de la matière, et les autres pour celle de l’ombre.

Synonyms

incarnationallégorie

This word in other languages

personification(English)personificación(Español)Personifikation(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprsonnification
  • perosnnification
  • perrsonnification
  • persnonification
  • personification
  • personinfication
  • personnfiication
  • personnifciation
  • personniffication
  • personnifiaction
  • personnificaiton
  • personnificatino
  • personnificationn
  • personnificatoin
  • personnificattion
  • personnificcation
  • personnifictaion
  • personniifcation
  • perssonnification
  • pesronnification
  • ppersonnification
  • presonnification

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of personnification - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

eprsonnification2perosnnification2perrsonnification1persnonification2personification1personinfication2personnfiication2personnifciation2
Edit distance from "personnification"

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 "personnification"?
"personnification" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "personnification" mean?
As a noun, "personnification" means: Action de personnifier, consistant à faire d’un être inanimé ou d’une abstraction un personnage réel.
What are common misspellings of "personnification"?
Common misspellings include "eprsonnification", "perosnnification", "perrsonnification", "persnonification", "personification". The correct spelling is "personnification".
How do you pronounce "personnification"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "personnification" is \pɛʁ.sɔ.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "personnification" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list