pourvus
\puʁ.vy\
The verdict
“pourvus” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,657
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de pourvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourvus · pourvus · French
pourvus · rank #22,657 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,657
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourries
Nearest frequency peer: pourries (-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 « pourvus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- positionné
positionné
77,347 corpus weight
- postent
postent
77,346 corpus weight
- pourries
pourries
77,345 corpus weight
- pourvus
pourvus
77,344 corpus weight
- primitifs
primitifs
77,343 corpus weight
- proclamer
proclamer
77,342 corpus weight
What this shows « pourvus » 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 | pourvus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \puʁ.vy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourvus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pourvus (IPA \puʁ.vy\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,657 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourvus, with forms such as "opurvus", "poruvus", and "pourrvus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pourvu", "pourras", "pourris", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pourvus, spelled P-O-U-R-V-U-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de pourvoir.
- 2Première personne du singulier du passé simple de pourvoir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de pourvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pourvus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Posée sur douze vérins en appui sur la structure de la tour, la plate-forme de déconstruction permet à des engins de petite taille pourvus de pince de grignotage d’intervenir, avec un faible impact environnemental.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurvus
- poruvus
- pourrvus
- pouruvs
- pourvsu
- pourvuss
- pourvvus
- pouvrus
- ppourvus
- puorvus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourvus - 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 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).