profité

\pʁɔ.fi.te\

/\pʁɔ.fi.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“profité” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,011
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de profiter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-profite · profité · French

profité · rank #6,011 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,011
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH produisent

Nearest frequency peer: produisent (-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 « profité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « profité » 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).

profité vs proie
57% similar
profité vs profits
86% similar
profité vs propice
57% similar

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

Key facts for profité
PropertyValue
Headwordprofité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.fi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,011
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).profitése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « produisent » (#6,010), « promo » (#6,012), « prier » (#6,009). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « profité » est au #6,011. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around profité (IPA \pʁɔ.fi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de profiter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for profité, with forms such as "porfité", "pprofité", and "prfoité". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "proie", "profits", "propice", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is profité, spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de profiter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Dans les voitures suiveuses aussi, on avait baissé les vitres et profité des toits ouvrants.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porfité
  • pprofité
  • prfoité
  • proffité
  • profite
  • profitté
  • profiét
  • proftié
  • proifté
  • prrofité
  • rpofité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

porfité2pprofité1prfoité2proffité1profite1profitté1profiét2proftié2
Edit distance from "profité"

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 "profité"?
"profité" is spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.fi.te\.
What does "profité" mean?
As a verb, "profité" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de profiter.
What words are commonly confused with "profité"?
"profité" is commonly confused with "proie", "profits", "propice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "profité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profité" is \pʁɔ.fi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profité" come from?
"profité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pourrai#6,008prêtres#6,015radical#6,017requête#6,021

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

révéler11 variantssecrète11 variantssoutiens11 variantssupprimé11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list