profession
/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/noun
profession is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is profesion: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Profession is a noun meaning “A promise or vow made on entering a religious order”. The plural of profession is professions.
How many letters and syllables are in profession?
| Letters | 10: P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, profesion, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell profession?
Profession is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for profession in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is profession?
Profession appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 profession?
- US /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/
- Australia /pɹəˈfeʃ.ən/
Profession has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-profession.ogg, En-us-profession.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with profession?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as profession from its last stressed vowel (/ɛʃən/):
- session
- aggression
- obsession
- progression
- compression
- oppression
- suppression
- concession
- regression
- accession
- hessian
- digression
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 profession
- professions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does profession mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
She died only a few years after her profession.
- 2
The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association […] it is likely to bring an odium upon the profession they make, that will not soon be forgotten.
- 3
Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.
- 4
An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
My father was a barrister by profession.
- 5
The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Profession in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | profession , métier , corps de métier |
| German | Bekenntnis , Beruf, Profession , Fachwelt , Profess, Gelübde |
| Spanish | profesión , gremio , profesión de fe |
| Portuguese | profissão |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.