provender
/ˈpɹɒvɪndə/
"provender" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“provender” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Food, especially for livestock.
Corpus desk
Index EN-provender · provender · English
provender · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provender |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “provender” in English
Rare enough to double-check
provender is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Food, especially for livestock.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for provender, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend. The correct English form is provender, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Food, especially for livestock.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …
He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
Etymology
From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.