prévoyance
\pʁe.vwa.jɑ̃s\
The verdict
“prévoyance” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté de prévoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prevoyance · prévoyance · French
prévoyance · rank #15,731 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précaires
Nearest frequency peer: précaires (-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 « prévoyance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proclamation
proclamation
84,273 corpus weight
- protestante
protestante
84,272 corpus weight
- précaires
précaires
84,271 corpus weight
- prévoyance
prévoyance
84,270 corpus weight
- pénales
pénales
84,269 corpus weight
- pêches
pêches
84,268 corpus weight
What this shows « prévoyance » 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 | prévoyance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.vwa.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prévoyance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around prévoyance (IPA \pʁe.vwa.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,731 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prévoyance, with forms such as "pprévoyance", "prevoyance", and "prrévoyance". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prévoyant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prévoyance, spelled P-R-É-V-O-Y-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Faculté de prévoir.
- 2Action de prévoir et de prendre des précautions pour l’avenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prévoyance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'expédition du Mexique détruit notre effectif, anéantit le matériel de notre marine, dilapide nos finances, […]. Cette expédition, qui nous coûte tant, ne nous apprend rien, pas même la prudence et la prévoyance.
La réputation de ce grand homme reposait principalement sur l’autorité avec laquelle il démontrait que l’éternument était une prévoyance de la nature, au moyen de laquelle les penseurs trop profonds pouvaient chasser par le nez le superflu de leurs idées ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprévoyance
- prevoyance
- prrévoyance
- prvéoyance
- préovyance
- prévoaynce
- prévoyacne
- prévoyancce
- prévoyanec
- prévoyannce
- prévoynace
- prévoyyance
- prévvoyance
- prévyoance
- pérvoyance
- rpévoyance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prévoyance - 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 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).