profile
\pʁɔ.fil\
The verdict
“profile” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de profiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profile · profile · French
profile · rank #17,529 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primordiale
Nearest frequency peer: primordiale (-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 « profile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pourpre
pourpre
82,475 corpus weight
- praticiens
praticiens
82,474 corpus weight
- primordiale
primordiale
82,473 corpus weight
- profile
profile
82,472 corpus weight
- projectiles
projectiles
82,471 corpus weight
- propulsion
propulsion
82,470 corpus weight
What this shows « profile » 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 | profile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around profile (IPA \pʁɔ.fil\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for profile, with forms such as "porfile", "pprofile", and "prfoile". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "proie", "profit", "profité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is profile, spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de profiler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de profiler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de profiler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de profiler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de profiler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’équipe de France de basket peine à trouver la trace d’un match plein de son leadeur, Evan Fournier, alors que se profile la demi-finale de l’Euro, contre la Pologne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfile
- pprofile
- prfoile
- proffile
- profiel
- profille
- proflie
- proifle
- prrofile
- rpofile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profile - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).