provinziell
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,181
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
provinziell is anGermanadj. It means: in seinen Ansichten beschränkt; provinziell beschreibt die Sprache, die Umgangsformen, die Einfachheit und die mangelnde Kultiviertheit von Personen aus der Provinz Pronounced [pʁovɪnˈt͡si̯ɛl].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provinziell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [pʁovɪnˈt͡si̯ɛl] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for provinziell is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁovɪnˈt͡si̯ɛl]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,181 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for provinziell in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is provinziell, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-Z-I-E-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in seinen Ansichten beschränkt; provinziell beschreibt die Sprache, die Umgangsformen, die Einfachheit und die mangelnde Kultiviertheit von Personen aus der Provinz
- 2zur Provinz gehörend, aus der Provinz stammend; kulturell wenig bietend (im Vergleich zur Großstadt)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #83,181 in German
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