profits
\pʁɔ.fi\
The verdict
“profits” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,873. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,873
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de profit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profits · profits · French
profits · rank #6,873 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,873
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prochainement
Nearest frequency peer: prochainement (-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 « profits »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poèmes
poèmes
93,131 corpus weight
- priorités
priorités
93,130 corpus weight
- prochaineme…
prochainement
93,129 corpus weight
- profits
profits
93,128 corpus weight
- proie
proie
93,127 corpus weight
- proposés
proposés
93,126 corpus weight
What this shows « profits » 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 | profits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profits »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around profits (IPA \pʁɔ.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,873 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de profit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for profits, with forms such as "porfits", "pprofits", and "prfoits". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "profs", "promis", "proies", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is profits, spelled P-R-O-F-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de profit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je l’entraînai loin des oreilles indiscrètes et lui expliquai qu’elle pourrait rester ici, bossailler dans les spermes clapotants, répandre des boissons et des faux parfums, pour ses plus extraordinaires profits : « Certain qu’elle va te rapporter pendant au moins trois ans ! »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfits
- pprofits
- prfoits
- proffits
- profist
- profitss
- profitts
- proftis
- proifts
- prrofits
- rpofits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profits - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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