provokant
[pʁovoˈkant]
The verdict
“provokant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,580
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - so, dass es andere zu Abwehrreaktionen veranlassen kann oder soll
Corpus desk
Index DE-provokant · provokant · German
provokant · rank #39,580 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,580
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Produktionsst…
Nearest frequency peer: Produktionsstätten (-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 „provokant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Pressestelle
Pressestelle
60,424 corpus weight
- Privatleute
Privatleute
60,423 corpus weight
- Produktions…
Produktionsstätten
60,422 corpus weight
- provokant
provokant
60,421 corpus weight
- Prozedere
Prozedere
60,420 corpus weight
- Pupillen
Pupillen
60,419 corpus weight
What this shows „provokant“ 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 | provokant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁovoˈkant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „provokant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around provokant (IPA [pʁovoˈkant]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,580 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "so, dass es andere zu Abwehrreaktionen veranlassen kann oder soll".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for provokant, with forms such as "porvokant", "pprovokant", and "proovkant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Proviant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is provokant, spelled P-R-O-V-O-K-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1so, dass es andere zu Abwehrreaktionen veranlassen kann oder soll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provokant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sein Verhalten war provokant.
Schon das provokante Gesicht allein ließ Martin an einen Feuermelder denken.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvokant
- pprovokant
- proovkant
- provkoant
- provoaknt
- provokannt
- provokantt
- provokatn
- provokkant
- provoknat
- provvokant
- prrovokant
- prvookant
- rpovokant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provokant - 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 "provokant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).