professor
Portuguese, noun/pɾo.feˈsoʁ/
professor is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R (9 letters) and appears 166 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 582nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Professor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “teacher (a person who teaches professionally)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que tem por profissão ensinar”.
What does professor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineteacher (a person who teaches professionally)
- 2
Brazilmasculineslangcoach
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa que tem por profissão ensinar 2. mestre 3. magister
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of professor
- professores plural
- professora feminine
- professoras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce professor?
- Brazil /pɾo.feˈsoʁ/
- Brazil [pɾo.feˈsoh]
- /pɾo.feˈsoɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to professor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is professor in Portuguese?
professor appears 166 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).