professor
\pɹə.ˈfɛs.ɚ\
The verdict
“professor” is uncommon French (frequency #51,674 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,674
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professeur (d’une université).
Corpus desk
Index FR-professor · professor · French
professor · rank #51,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,674
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH princeps
Nearest frequency peer: princeps (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « professor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PPs
PPs
48,330 corpus weight
- preparation
preparation
48,329 corpus weight
- princeps
princeps
48,328 corpus weight
- professor
professor
48,327 corpus weight
- professoral
professoral
48,326 corpus weight
- programmati…
programmations
48,325 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « professor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɹə.ˈfɛs.ɚ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « professor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
professor is uncommon French at frequency #51,674 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɹə.ˈfɛs.ɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Professeur (d’une université).".
professor has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 professor, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1Professeur (d’une université).
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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