Spelling
Personnal or personnel?
Personnel is the right spelling. Personnal is a common misspelling of it.
PERSONNAL has A where PERSONNEL has E.
Why people write PERSONNAL
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Find a related word where that syllable is stressed, and the vowel becomes clear: definite has finite in it, and grammar goes with grammatical.
How often PERSONNEL is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), PERSONNAL appears 7 times for every 1,000 PERSONNEL, about once for every 143 correct uses.
Is PERSONNAL a word?
No. PERSONNAL is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. PERSONNEL is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What personnel means
noun: Group of people willing to obey orders.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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