professeurs
\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“professeurs” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,270
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de professeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professeurs · professeurs · French
professeurs · rank #4,270 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,270
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poudre
Nearest frequency peer: poudre (-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 « professeurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaindre
plaindre
95,734 corpus weight
- poitrine
poitrine
95,733 corpus weight
- poudre
poudre
95,732 corpus weight
- professeurs
professeurs
95,731 corpus weight
- prétexte
prétexte
95,730 corpus weight
- qualifié
qualifié
95,729 corpus weight
What this shows « professeurs » 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 | professeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « professeurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around professeurs (IPA \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,270 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de professeur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for professeurs, with forms such as "porfesseurs", "pprofesseurs", and "prfoesseurs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "professeur", "processeur", "professeure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is professeurs, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de professeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how professeurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce ne sont pas les bandits qui sont les pires ennemis des policiers, avait un jour dit un de ses professeurs de techniques policières, ce sont les j’aurais dû : j’aurais dû tirer plus vite, j’aurais dû attendre, j’aurais dû faire ceci ou cela, j’aurais dû suggérer à la mère d’Hitler de se faire avorter, j’aurais dû empêcher les avions de décoller et de fo…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfesseurs
- pprofesseurs
- prfoesseurs
- proefsseurs
- profesesurs
- profeseurs
- professerus
- professeurrs
- professeurss
- professeusr
- professuers
- proffesseurs
- profseseurs
- prrofesseurs
- rpofesseurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professeurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "professeurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).