personnaliséevspersonnaliserWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: personnalisée is a adjective, personnaliser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“personnalisée” is an adjective and “personnaliser” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,030
“personnalisée” frequency rank
#28,686
“personnaliser” frequency rank
50716
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature personnalisée personnaliser
Definition Féminin singulier de personnalisé. Adapter pour donner un caractère personnel à un objet ou une création.

Same sound, different letters: personnalisée vs personnaliser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. personnalisée (CVCCVCCVCVCVV) and personnaliser (CVCCVCCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

13 ch
personnalisée
13 ch
personnaliser

Same sound, different spelling - personnalisée / personnaliser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: personnalisée and personnaliser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50716, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

personnalisée is recorded at frequency rank #22,030, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\. personnaliser is at rank #28,686, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50716, this pair ranks #160,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of personnalisée vs personnaliser

Shared letters: aeilnoprs. Private to "personnalisée": é. Private to "personnaliser": -.

"personnalisée" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVV  ·  "personnaliser" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • personnaliser ← eprsonnaliser · perosnnaliser · perrsonnaliser · persnonaliser · personaliser · personanliser · personnailser · personnaliesr

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "personnalisée" and "personnaliser" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "personnalisée" is an adjective and "personnaliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "personnalisée" or "personnaliser" show up more?
"personnalisée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,030 in our French list, against #28,686 for "personnaliser". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"personnalisée" and "personnaliser" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "personnaliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #160,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "personnalisée" and "personnaliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnalisées vs personnaliser". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #160,512 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list