profès
\pʁɔ.fɛ\
The verdict
“profès” is uncommon French (frequency #86,049 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,049
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie le religieux ou la religieuse qui a fait les vœux par lesquels on s’engage dans un ordre religieux, après que le temps du noviciat a expiré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profes · profès · French
profès · rank #86,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,049
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH probus
Nearest frequency peer: probus (-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 « profès »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prescrira
prescrira
13,955 corpus weight
- probus
probus
13,953 corpus weight
- profès
profès
13,952 corpus weight
- proférés
proférés
13,951 corpus weight
- prompteur
prompteur
13,950 corpus weight
- prononcerai
prononcerai
13,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « profès » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « profès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
profès is uncommon French at frequency #86,049 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
profès doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is profès, spelled P-R-O-F-È-S.
Definition
- 1Qualifie le religieux ou la religieuse qui a fait les vœux par lesquels on s’engage dans un ordre religieux, après que le temps du noviciat a expiré.
- 2Relatif à la maison dans laquelle résident ces religieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how profès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], il semble qu’on aurait pu distinguer, dans le serment qu’on exigeait, les jésuites profès d’avec ceux qui ne l’étaient pas, […].
Ce prêtre doué pour les affaires du siècle mourut vingt ans plus tard dans sa maison professe d’Anvers, ayant choisi de finir sa vie dans ces provinces restées espagnoles, évidemment fidèle à ce qu’il faut bien appeler l’ancien régime.
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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