profanations
\pʁɔ.fa.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“profanations” is uncommon French (frequency #79,639 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de profanation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profanations · profanations · French
profanations · rank #79,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,639
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH priorisation
Nearest frequency peer: priorisation (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « profanations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pricing
pricing
20,365 corpus weight
- printed
printed
20,364 corpus weight
- priorisation
priorisation
20,363 corpus weight
- profanations
profanations
20,362 corpus weight
- progiciel
progiciel
20,361 corpus weight
- promenée
promenée
20,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « profanations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profanations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fa.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #79,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « profanations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
profanations is uncommon French at frequency #79,639 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.fa.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de profanation.".
profanations has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is profanations, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de profanation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profanations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’oublions pas que de 2005 à 2007, une série d’incendies de chapelles, de profanations et de décapitation de calvaires dans le Finistère et dans le Morbihan (Loqueffret, Saint-Tugdual…) avait mené les enquêteurs d’alors sur la piste de satanistes issus de mouvements néonazis et de black métal.
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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