profesa
[pɾoˈfesa]
The verdict
“profesa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #38,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,900
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de profesar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-profesa · profesa · Spanish
profesa · rank #38,900 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,900
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH professional
Nearest frequency peer: professional (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “profesa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- prestadas
prestadas
61,104 corpus weight
- preventivos
preventivos
61,103 corpus weight
- profesa
profesa
61,101 corpus weight
- professional
professional
61,100 corpus weight
- professor
professor
61,099 corpus weight
- prohíba
prohíba
61,098 corpus weight
What this shows “profesa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profesa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾoˈfesa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “profesa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around profesa (IPA [pɾoˈfesa]), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,900 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for profesa, with forms such as "porfesa", "pprofesa", and "prfoesa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prosa", "provea", "promesa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is profesa, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de profesar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de profesar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfesa
- pprofesa
- prfoesa
- proefsa
- profeas
- professa
- proffesa
- profsea
- prrofesa
- rpofesa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profesa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "profesa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).