profils

\pʁɔ.fil\

/\pʁɔ.fil\/ noun

The verdict

“profils” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,291. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,291
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de profil.

Corpus desk

Index FR-profils · profils · French

profils · rank #8,291 · 11 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,291
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH privilégié

Nearest frequency peer: privilégié (-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 « profils »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « profils » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

profils vs profs
71% similar
profils vs profit
71% similar
profils vs promis
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for profils
PropertyValue
Headwordprofils
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.fil\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,291
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profils »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.profilsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « privilégié » (#8,290), « privilèges » (#8,289), « présentement » (#8,293). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « profils » est au #8,291. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around profils (IPA \pʁɔ.fil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,291 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de profil.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for profils, with forms such as "porfils", "pprofils", and "prfoils". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "profs", "profit", "promis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is profils, spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de profil.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porfils
  • pprofils
  • prfoils
  • proffils
  • profills
  • profilss
  • profisl
  • proflis
  • proifls
  • prrofils
  • rpofils

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profils - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

porfils2pprofils1prfoils2proffils1profills1profilss1profisl2proflis2
Edit distance from "profils"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "profils"?
"profils" is spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.fil\.
What does "profils" mean?
As a noun, "profils" means: Pluriel de profil.
What words are commonly confused with "profils"?
"profils" is commonly confused with "profs", "profit", "promis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "profils"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profils" is \pʁɔ.fil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profils" come from?
"profils" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "profils", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list