provincial
[pɾoβ̞ĩnˈsjal]
The verdict
“provincial” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,684
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perteneciente o relativo a una provincia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-provincial · provincial · Spanish
provincial · rank #2,684 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,684
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH propiedades
Nearest frequency peer: propiedades (-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 “provincial”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pensamientos
pensamientos
97,320 corpus weight
- preocupa
preocupa
97,319 corpus weight
- propiedades
propiedades
97,318 corpus weight
- provincial
provincial
97,317 corpus weight
- residencia
residencia
97,316 corpus weight
- sonrisa
sonrisa
97,314 corpus weight
What this shows “provincial” 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 | provincial |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾoβ̞ĩnˈsjal] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “provincial”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around provincial (IPA [pɾoβ̞ĩnˈsjal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,684 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for provincial, with forms such as "porvincial", "pprovincial", and "probincial". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "provincias", "provinciano", "provinciales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Spanish form is provincial, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente o relativo a una provincia.
- 2Dícese de la persona religiosa que tiene el gobierno y la superioridad sobre todas las casas y conventos de una provincia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provincial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«El premio al mejor deportista provincial que concede la Diputación de Pontevedra recaerá este año entre uno de los veintidós nominados, representantes de diecisiete especialidades».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvincial
- pprovincial
- probincial
- proivncial
- provicnial
- provincail
- provinccial
- provinciall
- provincila
- provinical
- provinncial
- provinsial
- provnicial
- provvincial
- prrovincial
- prvoincial
- rpovincial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provincial - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provincial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).