professionnel

/\pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,886

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

professionnel is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est relatif à une profession. Pronounced \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\. It ranks #1,886 in French word frequency. Often confused with professionnels and professionnelle.

Key facts for professionnel
PropertyValue
Headwordprofessionnel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\
Letters13
Frequency rank#1,886
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of professionnel in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for professionnel is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,886 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for professionnel, with forms such as "porfessionnel", "pprofessionnel", and "prfoessionnel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "professionnels", "professionnelle", "professionnelles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 professionnel, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est relatif à une profession.
  2. 2
    Qualifie la formation des apprentis à leur métier.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: porfessionnel,pprofessionnel,prfoessionnel,proefssionnel,profesionnel,profesisonnel,professinonel,professionel,professionenl,professionnell,professionnle,professoinnel,proffessionnel,profsesionnel,prrofessionnel,rpofessionnel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for professionnel

Misspelling Variants of "professionnel"

porfessionnel13pprofessionnel14prfoessionnel13proefssionnel13profesionnel12profesisonnel13professinonel13professionel12
Misspelling Variants of "professionnel"

Frequency rank: #1,886 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "professionnel"?
"professionnel" is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\.
What does "professionnel" mean?
As an adj, "professionnel" means: Qui est relatif à une profession.
What words are commonly confused with "professionnel"?
"professionnel" is commonly confused with "professionnels", "professionnelle", "professionnelles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "professionnel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "professionnel" is \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "professionnel" come from?
"professionnel" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.