profan
[pʁoˈfaːn]
The verdict
“profan” is uncommon German (frequency #86,930 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,930
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alltäglich, gewöhnlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-profan · profan · German
profan · rank #86,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,930
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Produktionska…
Nearest frequency peer: Produktionskapazität (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “profan”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Prismen
Prismen
13,077 corpus weight
- Produktions…
Produktionskapazität
13,073 corpus weight
- profan
profan
13,071 corpus weight
- Proll
Proll
13,068 corpus weight
- propagandis…
propagandistischen
13,067 corpus weight
- Proprietären
Proprietären
13,066 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “profan” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁoˈfaːn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “profan” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
profan is uncommon German at frequency #86,930 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pʁoˈfaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for profan, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is profan, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N.
Definition
- 1alltäglich, gewöhnlich
- 2weltlich, nicht heilig, nicht kirchlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how profan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist ganz profaner Klatsch, keine bedeutsame Nachricht.
Manche Kirche wird, wenn sie nicht mehr für Gottesdienste benötigt wird, profan genutzt.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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