profitable

[pʁofiˈtaːblə]

/[pʁofiˈtaːblə]/ adj

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The verdict

“profitable” is uncommon German (frequency #67,604 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,604
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel

Corpus desk

Index DE-profitable · profitable · German

profitable · rank #67,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,604
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Profitgier

Nearest frequency peer: Profitgier (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „profitable“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „profitable“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for profitable
PropertyValue
Headwordprofitable
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[pʁofiˈtaːblə]
Letters10
Frequency rank#67,604
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „profitable“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).profitablefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Profitgier“ (#67,605), „presto“ (#67,602), „prunkvollen“ (#67,606). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „profitable“ bei #67,604. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

profitable is uncommon German at frequency #67,604 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pʁofiˈtaːblə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

profitable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is profitable, spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "profitable"?
"profitable" is spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pʁofiˈtaːblə].
What does "profitable" mean?
As an adjective, "profitable" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs profitabel
How do you pronounce "profitable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profitable" is [pʁofiˈtaːblə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profitable" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "profitable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Profitgier#67,605rezitieren#67,635neudeutsch#67,553Schickeria#67,657

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list