pourvue
\puʁ.vy\
The verdict
“pourvue” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,915
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de pourvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourvue · pourvue · French
pourvue · rank #27,915 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,915
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pointure
Nearest frequency peer: pointure (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourvue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pointue
pointue
72,088 corpus weight
- pointure
pointure
72,087 corpus weight
- pourvue
pourvue
72,086 corpus weight
- poussez
poussez
72,085 corpus weight
- prennes
prennes
72,084 corpus weight
- privant
privant
72,083 corpus weight
What this shows « pourvue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | pourvue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \puʁ.vy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourvue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pourvue (IPA \puʁ.vy\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,915 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de pourvoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourvue, with forms such as "opurvue", "poruvue", and "pourrvue". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pourvus", "pourvues", "pourvu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pourvue, spelled P-O-U-R-V-U-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de pourvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pourvue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A moins d’une lieue de Vendœuvres, en allant sur le marais de Bellebouche, au lieu dit « le button aux fades », une famille d’hommes libres, venant de la région d’Erfurt, a été pourvue par notre souverain d’un domaine, en remplacement d’Aquitains qui avaient péri pendant la guerre, il y a cela plus de vingt ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurvue
- poruvue
- pourrvue
- pouruve
- pourveu
- pourvvue
- pouvrue
- ppourvue
- puorvue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourvue - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).