Which to use
“professeur” and “professeurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,170
- “professeur” frequency rank
- #4,270
- “professeurs” frequency rank
- 5440
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | professeur | professeurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui enseigne une science ou un art, quel que soit le niveau : de l’enseignement primaire à l’université, ou en dehors d’une structure. | Pluriel de professeur. |
Same sound, different letters: professeur vs professeurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - professeur / professeurs
This is the hard kind. professeur and professeurs are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “professeur” sits inside “professeurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5440, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
professeur is recorded at frequency rank #1,170, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\. professeurs is at rank #4,270, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.fɛ.sœʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 5440, this pair ranks #429,010 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of professeur vs professeurs
Shared letters: efoprsu. Private to "professeur": -. Private to "professeurs": -.
"professeur" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVC · "professeurs" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- professeur ← porfesseur · pprofesseur · prfoesseur · proefsseur · profesesur · profeseur · professeru · professeurr
- professeurs ← porfesseurs · pprofesseurs · prfoesseurs · proefsseurs · profesesurs · profeseurs · professerus · professeurrs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "professeur" and "professeurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "professeur" or "professeurs"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "professeur" / "professeurs". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "professeur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "professeurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #429,010 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "professeur" and "professeurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "processeurs vs professeurs". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #429,010 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.