profess

Other forms of profess

past tense

professed·

present participle

professing·

third person

professes·

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 profess

What does profess mean?

profess means "practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profess?

profess has 2 syllables: pro-fess. The stress falls on "fess". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɛs/.

What is another word for profess?

Close synonyms include concede, confess, pretend. 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 profess a common word?

profess is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with profess?

2 words rhyme with profess. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.