prof

Other forms of prof

plural

profs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prof

What does prof mean?

prof means "someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university".

How many syllables are in prof?

prof has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for prof?

Close synonyms include professor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prof a common word?

prof is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.