professait
\pʁɔ.fe.sɛ\
The verdict
“professait” is uncommon French (frequency #97,310 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,310
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de professer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professait · professait · French
professait · rank #97,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,310
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH professant
Nearest frequency peer: professant (+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 « professait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prescrive
prescrive
2,696 corpus weight
- Presle
Presle
2,695 corpus weight
- professait
professait
2,691 corpus weight
- professant
professant
2,690 corpus weight
- proj
proj
2,688 corpus weight
- prononceront
prononceront
2,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « professait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fe.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « professait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
professait is uncommon French at frequency #97,310 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.fe.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de professer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for professait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is professait, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de professer.
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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