prouvait
\pʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“prouvait” is uncommon French (frequency #50,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prouvait · prouvait · French
prouvait · rank #50,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proférées
Nearest frequency peer: proférées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prouvait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procédait
procédait
49,565 corpus weight
- proférer
proférer
49,564 corpus weight
- proférées
proférées
49,563 corpus weight
- prouvait
prouvait
49,562 corpus weight
- prouverait
prouverait
49,561 corpus weight
- précipitant
précipitant
49,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prouvait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prouvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prouvait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prouvait is uncommon French at frequency #50,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁu.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prouver.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prouvait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 prouvait, spelled P-R-O-U-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prouvait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
William Crookes, le célèbre savant qui expérimenta avec le médium Florence Cook, a même pu prendre le pouls du fameux fantôme « Katie King » ; il décompta exactement 75 battements, alors que le pouls du médium entransé en atteignait 90, ce qui prouvait bien que ce n’était pas lui qui jouait au fantôme mystificateur.
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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