personnalité vs personnalités

Which to use

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

#2,440
“personnalité” frequency rank: #4,010
“personnalités” frequency rank: 6450
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	personnalité	personnalités
Definition	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.	Pluriel de personnalité.

Same sound, different letters: personnalité vs personnalités

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

12 ch

personnalité

13 ch

personnalités

Same sound, different spelling - personnalité / personnalités

This is the hard kind. personnalité and personnalités are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “personnalité” sits inside “personnalités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6450, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

personnalité is recorded at frequency rank #2,440, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. 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 6450, this pair ranks #426,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of personnalité vs personnalités

Shared letters: aeilnoprsté. Private to "personnalité": -. Private to "personnalités": -.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "personnalité" for "personnalités" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "personnalité" or "personnalités" show up more?

"personnalité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,440 in our French list, against #4,010 for "personnalités". 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 "personnalité" 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 #426,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"personnalité" and "personnalités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnalisées vs personnalités". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #426,180 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.