profitable

\pʁɔ.fi.tabl\

/\pʁɔ.fi.tabl\/ adj

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The verdict

“profitable” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,795. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,795
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est utile, avantageux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-profitable · profitable · French

profitable · rank #17,795 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,795
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH priez

Nearest frequency peer: priez (-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 « profitable »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « profitable » 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).

profitable vs profitables
91% similar

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

Key facts for profitable
PropertyValue
Headwordprofitable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁɔ.fi.tabl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#17,795
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profitable »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).profitablese 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 « priez » (#17,794), « promettent » (#17,796), « préservatif » (#17,797). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « profitable » est au #17,795. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around profitable (IPA \pʁɔ.fi.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est utile, avantageux.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for profitable, with forms such as "porfitable", "pprofitable", and "prfoitable". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "profitables", 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. The correct French form is profitable, spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est utile, avantageux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how profitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À ce tronc si court sont attachés des membres d’une longueur gigantesque : l’enjambée faite est ainsi profitable à une marche fort rapide.
  2. La délivrance des lettres de marque et le droit de course avec commission, c'est-à-dire après avoir reçu du roi l'autorisation d'armer des navires et de courir sus aux étrangers dont on avait à se plaindre, devinrent bientôt très profitables aux armateurs malouins et à leurs confrères des autres ports.

Synonyms

bienfaisantfavorablesalutaire

Antonyms

improfitable

This word in other languages

beneficial(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porfitable
  • pprofitable
  • prfoitable
  • proffitable
  • profiatble
  • profitabble
  • profitabel
  • profitablle
  • profitalbe
  • profitbale
  • profittable
  • proftiable
  • proiftable
  • prrofitable
  • rpofitable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profitable - 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.

porfitable2pprofitable1prfoitable2proffitable1profiatble2profitabble1profitabel2profitablle1
Edit distance from "profitable"

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 "profitable"?
"profitable" is spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.fi.tabl\.
What does "profitable" mean?
As an adjective, "profitable" means: Qui est utile, avantageux.
What words are commonly confused with "profitable"?
"profitable" is commonly confused with "profitables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "profitable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profitable" is \pʁɔ.fi.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profitable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

promettent#17,796rédemption#17,808solidement#17,821soustraire#17,824

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

justifient15 variantsdominicaine15 variantsdéfectueux15 variantsBundesliga15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list