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“personnaliser” and “personnalisés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#28,686
“personnaliser” frequency rank
#30,737
“personnalisés” frequency rank
59423
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature personnaliser personnalisés
Definition Adapter pour donner un caractère personnel à un objet ou une création. Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe personnaliser.

Same sound, different letters: personnaliser vs personnalisés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. personnaliser and personnalisés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

13 ch
personnaliser
13 ch
personnalisés

Same sound, different spelling - personnaliser / personnalisés

This is the hard kind. personnaliser and personnalisés are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59423, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

personnaliser is recorded at frequency rank #28,686, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\. personnalisés is at rank #30,737, 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 59423, this pair ranks #103,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of personnaliser vs personnalisés

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

"personnaliser" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC  ·  "personnalisés" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "personnaliser" and "personnalisés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "personnaliser" vs "personnalisés" - which ranks higher?
"personnaliser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,686 in our French list, against #30,737 for "personnalisés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "personnaliser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #103,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "personnaliser" and "personnalisés" 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 #103,231 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