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prof

/pɹɑf/noun

prof is spelled P-R-O-F: 4 letters. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, prof means “Clipping of professor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of prof is profs.

How many letters and syllables are in prof?

Letters4: P-R-O-F
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is prof?

Prof appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce prof?

  • US /pɹɑf/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-prof.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with prof?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prof from its last stressed vowel (/ɑf/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of prof

  • profs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does prof mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalClipping of professor.

  2. 2

    informalClipping of profit.

noun

as Prof
  1. 1

    informalInformal spelling of Prof.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does prof come from?

Shortening.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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