prouva
\pʁu.va\
The verdict
“prouva” is uncommon French (frequency #84,197 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,197
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prouva · prouva · French
prouva · rank #84,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,197
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promette
Nearest frequency peer: promette (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prouva »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procura
procura
15,808 corpus weight
- projetons
projetons
15,807 corpus weight
- promette
promette
15,806 corpus weight
- prouva
prouva
15,804 corpus weight
- prédatrices
prédatrices
15,802 corpus weight
- présumant
présumant
15,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prouva » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prouva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁu.va\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prouva » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prouva is uncommon French at frequency #84,197 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁu.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prouver.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prouva, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prouva, spelled P-R-O-U-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prouver.
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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