profiterole
/pɹəˈfɪtəɹoʊl/noun
profiterole is a noun meaning “A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-E-R-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of profiterole is profiteroles.
What does profiterole mean?
noun
- 1
A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce profiterole?
- /pɹəˈfɪtəɹoʊl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-profiterole.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of profiterole
- profiteroles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is profiterole?
Profiterole appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Profiterole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense choux pastry with filling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | profiterole |
| German | Windbeutel |
| Portuguese | profiterole |
| Spanish | profiterol |
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.
Where does profiterole come from?
Borrowed from French profiterole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).