professionell
[pʁofɛsi̯oˈnɛl]
The verdict
“professionell” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,709
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einem Fachmann ausgeführt, auf fachmännische Art
Corpus desk
Index DE-professionell · professionell · German
professionell · rank #6,709 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,709
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Prinzipien
Nearest frequency peer: Prinzipien (-1 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 “professionell”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Praktikum
Praktikum
93,295 corpus weight
- prinzipiell
prinzipiell
93,294 corpus weight
- Prinzipien
Prinzipien
93,293 corpus weight
- professione…
professionell
93,292 corpus weight
- Prognose
Prognose
93,291 corpus weight
- psychische
psychische
93,290 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “professionell” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professionell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁofɛsi̯oˈnɛl] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “professionell” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around professionell (IPA [pʁofɛsi̯oˈnɛl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,709 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for professionell, with forms such as "porfessionell", "pprofessionell", and "prfoessionell". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "professionelle", "professionellen", "professioneller", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is professionell, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1von einem Fachmann ausgeführt, auf fachmännische Art
- 2kommerziell, das heißt gegen Bezahlung; hierbei ist ausdrücklich keine Aussage über die Qualität gemeint
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professionell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Reinigung war professionell.
Er tritt sehr professionell auf.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfessionell
- pprofessionell
- prfoessionell
- proefssionell
- profesionell
- profesisonell
- professinoell
- professioenll
- professionel
- professionlel
- professionnell
- professoinell
- profeßionell
- proffessionell
- profsesionell
- prrofessionell
- rpofessionell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professionell - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "professionell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "professionell". Here's where to go from here.
- "professionell" maps to 5 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "professionelle". View pair
- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,709 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.