professeure
\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“professeure” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,467
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enseignante, femme qui professe, qui enseigne une science ou un art.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professeure · professeure · French
professeure · rank #15,467 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,467
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prions
Nearest frequency peer: prions (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « professeure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- princesses
princesses
84,536 corpus weight
- prions
prions
84,535 corpus weight
- professeure
professeure
84,534 corpus weight
- protéine
protéine
84,533 corpus weight
- préparations
préparations
84,532 corpus weight
- prévoyant
prévoyant
84,531 corpus weight
What this shows « professeure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professeure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « professeure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around professeure (IPA \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,467 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for professeure, with forms such as "porfesseure", "pprofesseure", and "prfoesseure". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "professeurs", "professeur", "processeur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is professeure, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Enseignante, femme qui professe, qui enseigne une science ou un art.
- 2Titre féminin obtenu à l’issue d’un cursus universitaire, permettant d’encadrer des recherches académiques et universitaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professeure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est évidemment pas dans mon intention. Que les femmes qui enseignent ou se destinent à l’enseignement veuillent bien m’excuser et considérer que ce texte s’adresse aussi à toutes les jeunes professeures.
C’est Jeanne Beyou, une jeune Guipavasienne, professeure d’anglais en collège et lycée, qui a en charge l’accueil du public.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfesseure
- pprofesseure
- prfoesseure
- proefsseure
- profesesure
- profeseure
- professerue
- professeuer
- professeurre
- professuere
- proffesseure
- profseseure
- prrofesseure
- rpofesseure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professeure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).