personnaliservspersonnalitésTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#28,686
“personnaliser” frequency rank
#4,010
“personnalités” frequency rank
32696
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature personnaliser personnalités
Definition Adapter pour donner un caractère personnel à un objet ou une création. Pluriel de personnalité.

Where the eye mixes personnaliser and personnalités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. personnaliser and personnalités 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
personnalités

Visual trap between personnaliser and personnalités

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: personnaliser is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\ while personnalités is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32696, 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\. personnalités is at rank #4,010, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\.

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 32696, this pair ranks #295,546 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of personnaliser vs personnalités

Shared letters: aeilnoprs. Private to "personnaliser": -. Private to "personnalités": té.

"personnaliser" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC  ·  "personnalités" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "personnaliser" and "personnalités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "personnaliser" is a verb and "personnalités" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "personnaliser" or "personnalités"?
"personnalités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,010 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

Eye-level mix-up between "personnaliser" and "personnalités" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "personnaliser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #295,546 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "personnaliser" and "personnalités" 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 #295,546 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