Which to use
“profession” and “professions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,791
- “profession” frequency rank
- #7,484
- “professions” frequency rank
- 11275
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | profession | professions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Déclaration publique d’un sentiment habituel. | Pluriel de profession. |
Same sound, different letters: profession vs professions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Homophone desk: profession vs professions
This is the hard kind. profession and professions are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “profession” sits inside “professions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11275, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
profession is recorded at frequency rank #3,791, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ̃\. professions is at rank #7,484, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.fɛ.sjɔ̃\.
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 11275, this pair ranks #409,748 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of profession vs professions
Shared letters: efinoprs. Private to "profession": -. Private to "professions": -.
"profession" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVC · "professions" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- profession ← porfession · pprofession · prfoession · proefssion · profesion · profesison · professino · professionn
- professions ← porfessions · pprofessions · prfoessions · proefssions · profesions · profesisons · professinos · professionns
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "profession" and "professions" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "profession" vs "professions" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "profession" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "professions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #409,748 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "profession" and "professions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "professions vs progressions". 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 #409,748 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.