personnaliséesvspersonnaliserWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#34,667
“personnalisées” frequency rank
#28,686
“personnaliser” frequency rank
63353
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: personnalisées vs personnaliser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. personnalisées runs 14 letters (CVCCVCCVCVCVVC) against personnaliser's 13 (CVCCVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

14 ch
personnalisées
13 ch
personnaliser

Ear matches; page differs - personnalisées and personnaliser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: personnalisées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63353, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

personnalisées is recorded at frequency rank #34,667, 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 63353, this pair ranks #82,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of personnalisées vs personnaliser

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

"personnalisées" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVVC  ·  "personnaliser" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "personnalisées" for "personnaliser" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "personnalisées" is an adjective and "personnaliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "personnalisées" or "personnaliser"?
"personnaliser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,686 in our French list, against #34,667 for "personnalisées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "personnalisées" / "personnaliser". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalisées" 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 #82,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "personnalisées" and "personnaliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnalisées vs personnalisés". 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 #82,379 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