provender
/ˈpɹɒvɪndə/
"provender" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“provender” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Food, especially for livestock.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provender |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “provender” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for provender is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “provender”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-O-V-E-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.