profesión

/[pɾofeˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,651

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

profesión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de profesar. Pronounced [pɾofeˈsjõn]. It ranks #3,651 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with profesor and professor.

Key facts for profesión
PropertyValue
Headwordprofesión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɾofeˈsjõn]
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,651
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of profesión in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for profesión is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾofeˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,651 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for profesión, with forms such as "porfesión", "pprofesión", and "prfoesión". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "profesor", "professor", "profusión", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is profesión, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de profesar.
  2. 2
    Ocupación remunerada que requiere de experiencia o amplia preparación (a través del estudio o el entrenamiento especializados).
  3. 3
    Colectividad de quienes ejercen una misma profesión₂.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: porfesión,pprofesión,prfoesión,proefsión,profeción,profeisón,profesinó,profesiónn,professión,profesóin,proffesión,profseión,prrofesión,rpofesión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for profesión

Misspelling Variants of "profesión"

porfesión9pprofesión10prfoesión9proefsión9profeción9profeisón9profesinó9profesiónn10
Misspelling Variants of "profesión"

Frequency rank: #3,651 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "profesión"?
"profesión" is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾofeˈsjõn].
What does "profesión" mean?
As a noun, "profesión" means: Acción o efecto de profesar.
What words are commonly confused with "profesión"?
"profesión" is commonly confused with "profesor", "professor", "profusión". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "profesión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profesión" is [pɾofeˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profesión" come from?
"profesión" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.