Proviant
[pʁoˈvi̯ant]
The verdict
“Proviant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,222. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,222
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mitgeführter Nahrungsvorrat
Corpus desk
Index DE-proviant · Proviant · German
Proviant · rank #32,222 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,222
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Protagonistin
Nearest frequency peer: Protagonistin (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Proviant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Profilbild
Profilbild
67,782 corpus weight
- Prominenz
Prominenz
67,781 corpus weight
- Protagonist…
Protagonistin
67,780 corpus weight
- Proviant
Proviant
67,779 corpus weight
- Publicity
Publicity
67,778 corpus weight
- punch
punch
67,777 corpus weight
What this shows „Proviant“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Proviant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁoˈvi̯ant] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Proviant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Proviant (IPA [pʁoˈvi̯ant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,222 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mitgeführter Nahrungsvorrat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Proviant, with forms such as "porviant", "pproviant", and "proivant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Provinz", "provokant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Proviant, spelled P-R-O-V-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1mitgeführter Nahrungsvorrat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Proviant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wir verheimlichten so gut wie möglich, daß wir Gold und Perlen hatten, und verkauften deshalb drei, vier Ballen Chinaseide und indischen Kaliko, um das nötige Geld zu haben, Kamele zu erwerben, den Zoll zu bezahlen, der an mehreren Stellen erhoben wurde, und uns für die Wüste mit Proviant auszurüsten.“
„Wir hielten irgendwo auf dem Feld an, packten unseren Proviant aus und ließen den kleinen Banditen nach Belieben sich den Bauch vollschlagen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porviant
- pproviant
- proivant
- provaint
- proviannt
- proviantt
- proviatn
- provinat
- provviant
- prroviant
- prvoiant
- rpoviant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Proviant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Proviant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).