professeur principal

\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\

/\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\/ noun

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The verdict

“professeur principal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-professeur-principal · professeur principal · French

professeur principal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 20 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for professeur principal
PropertyValue
Headwordprofesseur principal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “professeur principal” sits in French frequency

professeur principal falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

professeur principal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.".

professeur principal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. 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.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "professeur principal"?
"professeur principal" is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\.
What does "professeur principal" mean?
As a noun, "professeur principal" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "professeur principal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "professeur principal" is \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ pʁɛ̃.si.pal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "professeur principal" come from?
"professeur principal" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list