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profaned

adjective, verb

profaned is spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-E-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, profaned means “Treated with irreverence or without due respect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in profaned?

Letters8: P-R-O-F-A-N-E-D
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 91,522nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is profaned?

Profaned appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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).

Forms of profaned

  • more profaned comparative
  • most profaned superlative

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

What does profaned mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Treated with irreverence or without due respect.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of profane (a form of profane)

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

Where does profaned come from?

From the past and past participle of the verb profane.

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

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