profanar
The verdict
“profanar” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #80,702 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #80,702
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - desrespeitar a santidade de algo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profanar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “profanar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for profanar is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #80,702 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "desrespeitar a santidade de algo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for profanar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Portuguese form is profanar, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1desrespeitar a santidade de algo
This word in other languages
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “profanar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-F-A-N-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.