provisional
[pɾoβ̞isjoˈnal]
The verdict
“provisional” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,818
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que perdura sólo hasta su sustitución por algo definitivo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-provisional · provisional · Spanish
provisional · rank #6,818 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,818
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH procede
Nearest frequency peer: procede (-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 “provisional”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- presiones
presiones
93,186 corpus weight
- primarias
primarias
93,185 corpus weight
- procede
procede
93,184 corpus weight
- provisional
provisional
93,183 corpus weight
- radiación
radiación
93,182 corpus weight
- reconocidos
reconocidos
93,181 corpus weight
What this shows “provisional” 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 | provisional |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾoβ̞isjoˈnal] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “provisional”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around provisional (IPA [pɾoβ̞isjoˈnal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,818 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que perdura sólo hasta su sustitución por algo definitivo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for provisional, with forms such as "porvisional", "pprovisional", and "probisional". 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, "provisiones", "provisionales", "profesional", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is provisional, spelled P-R-O-V-I-S-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que perdura sólo hasta su sustitución por algo definitivo.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvisional
- pprovisional
- probisional
- proivsional
- provicional
- proviisonal
- provisinoal
- provisioanl
- provisionall
- provisionla
- provisionnal
- provisoinal
- provissional
- provsiional
- provvisional
- prrovisional
- prvoisional
- rpovisional
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provisional - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "provisional", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).