professant
\pʁɔ.fe.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“professant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,311 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de professer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professant · professant · French
professant · rank #97,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,311
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH professait
Nearest frequency peer: professait (-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 « professant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- précédèrent
précédèrent
2,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « professant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fe.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « professant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
professant is uncommon French at frequency #97,311 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.fe.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de professer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for professant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 professant, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de professer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Telle est l’extrême division de cette race professant toutes les religions, du chamanisme à l’islamisme, et de l’orthodoxie grecque au luthéranisme; nomade avec le lapon, pastorale avec le bachkir, sédentaire et agricole avec le cultivateur esthonien ou finlandais; ayant reçu le culte et parfois la langue des uns et des autres, partout dominée par des peu…
Tant d’intellectuels chevelus s’avanceraient masqués dans les décennies ultérieures, professant l’égalité des sexes pendant que leurs compagnes touilleraient la marmite en cuisine.
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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