professrice
\pʁɔ.fɛs.ʁis\
The verdict
“professrice” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enseignante, femme qui professe, qui enseigne une science ou un art.
Corpus desk
Index FR-professrice · professrice · French
professrice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | professrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɛs.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « professrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
professrice is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.fɛs.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enseignante, femme qui professe, qui enseigne une science ou un art.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for professrice, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is professrice, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Enseignante, femme qui professe, qui enseigne une science ou un art.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’apprends donc l’allemand, non pour mon bonheur, mais pour celui de Jacques qui m’appelle sa professrice. M. Courvel ne lui donne qu’un quart d’heure de leçon et c’est moi qui absorbe les trois autres.
Je n’entrerai pas dans la querelle des genres : une institutrice, « la maîtresse » est bien un cadre moyen, une inspectrice ou une directrice, un cadre supérieur. Mais professrice est imprononçable, et depuis belle lurette l’on dit le ou la prof ! Quant à la Présidente, cela se dirait pour peu que certaines femmes renoncent à l’habitude monarchique d’empr…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.