profana
[pɾoˈfana]
The verdict
“profana” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,160 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,160
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de profano.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾoˈfana] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “profana” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
profana is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,160 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pɾoˈfana]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de profano.".
Zero misspellings are on record for profana in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is profana, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de profano.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “profana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-R-O-F-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.