Which to use
“personnelle” and “personnelles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,489
- “personnelle” frequency rank
- #3,953
- “personnelles” frequency rank
- 6442
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | personnelle | personnelles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de personnel. | Féminin pluriel de personnel. |
Same sound, different letters: personnelle vs personnelles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. personnelle runs 11 letters (CVCCVCCVCCV) against personnelles's 12 (CVCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: personnelle vs personnelles
This is the hard kind. personnelle and personnelles are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.sɔ.nɛl\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “personnelle” sits inside “personnelles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6442, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
personnelle is recorded at frequency rank #2,489, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.nɛl\. personnelles is at rank #3,953, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.nɛl\.
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 6442, this pair ranks #426,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of personnelle vs personnelles
Shared letters: elnoprs. Private to "personnelle": -. Private to "personnelles": -.
"personnelle" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCV · "personnelles" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- personnelle ← eprsonnelle · perosnnelle · perrsonnelle · persnonelle · personelle · personenlle · personnele · personnelel
- personnelles ← eprsonnelles · perosnnelles · perrsonnelles · persnonelles · personelles · personenlles · personnelels · personneles
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "personnelle" and "personnelles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "personnelle" vs "personnelles" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "personnelle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "personnelles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #426,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "personnelle" and "personnelles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnelles vs personnels". 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 #426,201 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.