profanée
\pʁɔ.fa.ne\
The verdict
“profanée” is uncommon French (frequency #77,818 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,818
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de profaner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profanee · profanée · French
profanée · rank #77,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,818
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proserpine
Nearest frequency peer: proserpine (+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 « profanée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- princip
princip
22,185 corpus weight
- profanée
profanée
22,183 corpus weight
- proserpine
proserpine
22,182 corpus weight
- protocolair…
protocolaires
22,181 corpus weight
- prove
prove
22,179 corpus weight
- proximités
proximités
22,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « profanée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profanée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fa.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « profanée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
profanée is uncommon French at frequency #77,818 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.fa.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de profaner.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for profanée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 profanée, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de profaner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profanée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, des deux parts, la terre, c’est-à-dire la vie présente, ou, en d’autres termes, la vie éternelle dans sa manifestation présente, au lieu d’être comprise religieusement et sanctifiée, est désanctifiée, si je puis m’exprimer ainsi, avilie, profanée, et abandonnée au hasard, à la fatalité, et au mal.
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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