pro
\pʁo\
The verdict
“pro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,039) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,039
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professionnel, professionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pro · pro · French
pro · rank #1,039 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,039
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH objectif
Nearest frequency peer: objectif (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pro »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Montréal
Montréal
98,965 corpus weight
- neuf
neuf
98,964 corpus weight
- objectif
objectif
98,963 corpus weight
- pro
pro
98,962 corpus weight
- probablement
probablement
98,961 corpus weight
- relation
relation
98,960 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pro » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | pro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pro »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pro is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pʁo\. Frequency #1,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Professionnel, professionnelle.".
pro has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 French form is pro, spelled P-R-O.
Definition
- 1Professionnel, professionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'aime mon lieu de vie tel qu'il est, assez rustique, sauvage et vivant, pour ne pas ressembler à un cliché dans La Maison de Marie-Claire – soyons honnête, je n'en ai pas les moyens et pourtant je suis une pro dans l’art de la récup’ et du bricolage.
Un travail de pro, avait admiré en connaisseur le légiste.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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