profan
\pʁoˈfaːn\
The verdict
“profan” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Profane, laïc, non religieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profan · profan · French
profan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁoˈfaːn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
profan is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁoˈfaːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for profan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 French form is profan, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N.
Definition
- 1Profane, laïc, non religieux.
- 2Quotidien, habituel, simple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manche Kirche wird, wenn sie nicht mehr für Gottesdienste benötigt wird, profan genutzt.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.