profane
\pʁɔ.fan\
The verdict
“profane” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,378
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’appartient pas à la religion, par opposition à ce qui la concerne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profane · profane · French
profane · rank #22,378 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,378
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourcentages
Nearest frequency peer: pourcentages (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « profane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- polarisation
polarisation
77,626 corpus weight
- policy
policy
77,625 corpus weight
- pourcentages
pourcentages
77,624 corpus weight
- profane
profane
77,623 corpus weight
- protagoniste
protagoniste
77,622 corpus weight
- provision
provision
77,621 corpus weight
What this shows « profane » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | profane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around profane (IPA \pʁɔ.fan\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,378 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for profane, with forms such as "porfane", "pprofane", and "prfoane". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "prône", "profond", "profité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 profane, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’appartient pas à la religion, par opposition à ce qui la concerne.
- 2Qui va contre le respect qu’on doit aux choses sacrées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how profane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le seul nom qui ait été sauvé de l'oubli, dans la poésie profane, est celui de ce médiocre rimeur de Mathieu-le-Juif, d'Arras, qui vivait au XIIIe siècle […].
C’est une action profane et impie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfane
- pprofane
- prfoane
- proafne
- profaen
- profanne
- proffane
- profnae
- prrofane
- rpofane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profane - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "profane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).