profil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,241
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
profil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contour, ligne du visage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’une chose, vu de côté. Pronounced \pʁɔ.fil\. It ranks #2,241 in French word frequency. Often confused with profs and proie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for profil is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.fil\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,241 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for profil, with forms such as "porfil", "pprofil", and "prfoil". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "profs", "proie", "profit", 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 profil, spelled P-R-O-F-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contour, ligne du visage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’une chose, vu de côté.
- 2Traits caractéristiques, en particulier psychologiques, d’une personne.
- 3Coupe, aspect, représentation d’une chose, vue d’un de ses côtés.
- 4Coupe, aspect, représentation d’une chose, vue d’un de ses côtés.
- 5Coupe, aspect, représentation d’une chose, vue d’un de ses côtés.
- 6Coupe, aspect, représentation d’une chose, vue d’un de ses côtés.
- 7Configuration, graphe d’une situation.
- 8Page Web que l’on trouve sur plusieurs plateformes sociales qui décrit un utilisateur ou une utilisatrice. Le profil contient généralement un identifiant, un texte descriptif, une photo, une bannière, un lien hypertexte et des publications sociales.
- 9Par extension, personne
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porfil,pprofil,prfoil,proffil,profill,profli,proifl,prrofil,rpofil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "profil"
Frequency rank: #2,241 in French
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