personnalisésvspersonnalitéConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#30,737
“personnalisés” frequency rank
#2,440
“personnalité” frequency rank
33177
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature personnalisés personnalité
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe personnaliser. Ce qui appartient essentiellement à la personne, ce qui lui est propre, ce qui fait qu’elle est elle-même, et non pas une autre.

Where the eye mixes personnalisés and personnalité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. personnalisés runs 13 letters (CVCCVCCVCVCVC) against personnalité's 12 (CVCCVCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch
personnalisés
12 ch
personnalité

Visual trap between personnalisés and personnalité

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: personnalisés is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\ while personnalité is \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33177, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

personnalisés is recorded at frequency rank #30,737, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.ze\. personnalité is at rank #2,440, 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 33177, this pair ranks #292,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of personnalisés vs personnalité

Shared letters: aeilnoprsé. Private to "personnalisés": -. Private to "personnalité": t.

"personnalisés" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCVC  ·  "personnalité" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "personnalisés" and "personnalité" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "personnalisés" is a verb and "personnalité" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "personnalisés" vs "personnalité" - which ranks higher?
"personnalité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,440 in our French list, against #30,737 for "personnalisés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalisés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "personnalité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #292,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "personnalisés" and "personnalité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnalisées vs personnalisés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #292,360 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