provenían
[pɾoβ̞eˈniãn]
The verdict
“provenían” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,362
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de provenir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-provenian · provenían · Spanish
provenían · rank #27,362 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,362
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH proverbios
Nearest frequency peer: proverbios (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “provenían”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- propinas
propinas
72,642 corpus weight
- propulsión
propulsión
72,641 corpus weight
- provenían
provenían
72,639 corpus weight
- proverbios
proverbios
72,638 corpus weight
- proyector
proyector
72,637 corpus weight
- prueben
prueben
72,636 corpus weight
What this shows “provenían” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | provenían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾoβ̞eˈniãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “provenían”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around provenían (IPA [pɾoβ̞eˈniãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,362 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de provenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for provenían, with forms such as "porvenían", "pprovenían", and "probenían". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "provenir", "Provenza", "provenzal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is provenían, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de provenir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvenían
- pprovenían
- probenían
- proevnían
- provenaín
- provennían
- proveníann
- provenína
- proveínan
- provneían
- provvenían
- prrovenían
- prvoenían
- rpovenían
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provenían - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).