professorat
French, noun/pʁɔ.fɛ.sɔ.ʁa/
professorat is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R-A-T (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Professorat is a French masculine noun meaning “professorship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Emploi, état, condition de professeur”.
What does professorat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprofessorship
- 2
masculinethe teaching profession
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Emploi, état, condition de professeur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of professorat
- professorats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce professorat?
- /pʁɔ.fɛ.sɔ.ʁa/
- /pʁɔ.fe.sɔ.ʁa/
- \pʁɔ.fɛ.sɔ.ʁa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is professorat in French?
professorat appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).