professeur des écoles
\pʁɔ.fe.sœʁ dɛ.z‿e.kɔl\
The verdict
“professeur des écoles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enseignant de l’école élémentaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professeur des écoles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fe.sœʁ dɛ.z‿e.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “professeur des écoles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for professeur des écoles is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.fe.sœʁ dɛ.z‿e.kɔl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Enseignant de l’école élémentaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for professeur des écoles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 professeur des écoles, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E-S- -É-C-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Enseignant de l’école élémentaire.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E-S- -É-C-O-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.