professionnelle
\pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“professionnelle” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,331
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui exerce une certaine activité en tant que profession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professionnelle · professionnelle · French
professionnelle · rank #2,331 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,331
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH principales
Nearest frequency peer: principales (-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 « professionnelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plateau
plateau
97,673 corpus weight
- pouvant
pouvant
97,672 corpus weight
- principales
principales
97,671 corpus weight
- professionn…
professionnelle
97,670 corpus weight
- quasi
quasi
97,669 corpus weight
- remise
remise
97,668 corpus weight
What this shows « professionnelle » 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 | professionnelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #2,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « professionnelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around professionnelle (IPA \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ.nɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,331 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for professionnelle, with forms such as "porfessionnelle", "pprofessionnelle", and "prfoessionnelle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "professionnels", "professionnelles", "professionnel", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is professionnelle, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui exerce une certaine activité en tant que profession.
- 2Prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professionnelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous avons une quinzaine de places manquantes, car il manque deux professionnelles, et nous n’avons aucune certitude quant à la possibilité de nouvelles arrivées », s’inquiète Myriam Lelion, la responsable de la crèche.
J’ai souvenance du cas d’un de mes camarades d’étude, qui, à l’âge de 18 ans, racolé un soir sur nos grands boulevards par une professionnelle, contracta d’elle la syphilis et mourut dix ans plus tard d’une paralysie générale due à cette infection.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfessionnelle
- pprofessionnelle
- prfoessionnelle
- proefssionnelle
- profesionnelle
- profesisonnelle
- professinonelle
- professionelle
- professionenlle
- professionnele
- professionnelel
- professionnlele
- professoinnelle
- proffessionnelle
- profsesionnelle
- prrofessionnelle
- rpofessionnelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professionnelle - 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 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).