professeur principal
\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\
The verdict
“professeur principal” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enseignant au collège ou au lycée chargé du suivi et de l’orientation des élèves d’une classe, en supplément à l’enseignement de sa matière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professeur principal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “professeur principal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for professeur principal is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\. 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 au collège ou au lycée chargé du suivi et de l’orientation des élèves d’une classe, en supplément à l’enseignement de sa matière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for professeur principal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is professeur principal, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enseignant au collège ou au lycée chargé du suivi et de l’orientation des élèves d’une classe, en supplément à l’enseignement de sa matière.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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