province

[pʀɔ.vε̃ːs]

/[pʀɔ.vε̃ːs]/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“province” is uncommon German (frequency #92,092 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,092
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provinz

Corpus desk

Index DE-province · province · German

province · rank #92,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,092
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH promovierten

Nearest frequency peer: promovierten (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „province“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „province“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for province
PropertyValue
Headwordprovince
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pʀɔ.vε̃ːs]
Letters8
Frequency rank#92,092
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „province“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.provincefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „promovierten“ (#92,091), „provozierten“ (#92,093), „Psychiatern“ (#92,096). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „province“ bei #92,092. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

province is uncommon German at frequency #92,092 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʀɔ.vε̃ːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Provinz".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for province, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is province, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Provinz

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "province"?
"province" is spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pʀɔ.vε̃ːs].
What does "province" mean?
As a noun, "province" means: Provinz
How do you pronounce "province"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "province" is [pʀɔ.vε̃ːs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "province" come from?
"province" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "province", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ramallah#92,109Reporten#92,136Rollbahn#92,151Nüsschen#92,028

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list