professor
/pɾu.ʃɨ.ˈsoɾ/
The verdict
“professor” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #588 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #588
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pessoa que tem por profissão ensinar
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 | professor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾu.ʃɨ.ˈsoɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “professor” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for professor is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾu.ʃɨ.ˈsoɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #588 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for professor, with forms such as "porfessor", "pprofessor", and "prfoessor". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "promissor", "processo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is professor, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1pessoa que tem por profissão ensinar
- 2mestre
- 3magister
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porfessor,pprofessor,prfoessor,proefssor,profesor,profesosr,professorr,professro,proffessor,profsesor,prrofessor,rpofessor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professor - 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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “professor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾu.ʃɨ.ˈsoɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “promissor” - see the side-by-side comparison. professor vs promissor
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.