profond
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,355
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
profond is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a une cavité considérable ; dont le fond est éloigné de la surface, de l’ouverture, du bord, etc. Pronounced \pʁɔ.fɔ̃\. It ranks #3,355 in French word frequency. Often confused with Proton and protons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for profond is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.fɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,355 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for profond, with forms such as "porfond", "pprofond", and "prfoond". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Proton", "protons", "profonde", and more, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is profond, spelled P-R-O-F-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a une cavité considérable ; dont le fond est éloigné de la surface, de l’ouverture, du bord, etc.
- 2Qui plonge très loin dans la terre.
- 3Qualifie les muscles situés plus loin sous la peau que les autres.
- 4Qualifie une blessure, une plaie qui pénètre fort avant dans les chairs.
- 5Qui se prolonge, s’étend loin en arrière.
- 6Qualifie une salutation, une révérence, une inclination faite en se courbant extrêmement bas.
- 7Qui est difficile à pénétrer, à connaître.
- 8Qui pénètre fort avant dans la connaissance des choses.
- 9Qui met beaucoup de réflexion et de calcul dans ses desseins.
- 10Qui est grand ou extrême dans son genre, en parlant tant des choses physiques que des choses morales.
- 11Qualifie la réalité d’un isolement de la fréquentation, du commerce des hommes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porfond,pprofond,prfoond,proffond,profnod,profodn,profondd,profonnd,proofnd,prrofond,rpofond
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for profond
Misspelling Variants of "profond"
Frequency rank: #3,355 in French
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