# provenance

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/ · frequency rank #23,955

## Definitions
1. Place or source of origin.
2. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
3. The history of ownership of a work of art.
4. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
5. The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
6. Background; history; place of origin.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).

## Easily confused with
- **Provence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/provenance-vs-provence)

## Common misspellings (16)
`porvenance`, `pprovenance`, `proevnance`, `proveannce`, `provenacne`, `provenancce`, `provenanec`, `provenannce`, `provenence`, `provennace`, `provennance`, `provneance`, `provvenance`, `prrovenance`, `prvoenance`, `rpovenance`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/provenance