profession

Other forms of profession

plural

professions·

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 profession

What does profession mean?

profession means "the body of people in a learned occupation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profession?

profession has 3 syllables: pro-fes-sion. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɛʃən/.

What is another word for profession?

Close synonyms include professing. 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 profession a common word?

profession is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 profession?

1 word rhymes with profession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.