profesar
[pɾofeˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“profesar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,575 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,575
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ejercer una ciencia, arte, oficio, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-profesar · profesar · Spanish
profesar · rank #56,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,575
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH procuren
Nearest frequency peer: procuren (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “profesar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- presse
presse
43,430 corpus weight
- procuren
procuren
43,427 corpus weight
- profesar
profesar
43,426 corpus weight
- profeso
profeso
43,425 corpus weight
- programátic…
programáticas
43,424 corpus weight
- prolongan
prolongan
43,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “profesar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profesar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾofeˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “profesar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
profesar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,575 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pɾofeˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for profesar, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is profesar, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Ejercer una ciencia, arte, oficio, etc.
- 2Enseñar una ciencia o arte.
- 3Ejercer una cosa con inclinación voluntaria y continuación en ella.
- 4Creer, confesar.
This word in other languages
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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