prouvant
\pʁu.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“prouvant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,248
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de prouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prouvant · prouvant · French
prouvant · rank #20,248 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH privation
Nearest frequency peer: privation (-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 « prouvant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poussette
poussette
79,756 corpus weight
- pride
pride
79,755 corpus weight
- privation
privation
79,754 corpus weight
- prouvant
prouvant
79,753 corpus weight
- présentaient
présentaient
79,752 corpus weight
- puberté
puberté
79,751 corpus weight
What this shows « prouvant » 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 | prouvant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁu.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prouvant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prouvant (IPA \pʁu.vɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,248 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de prouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prouvant, with forms such as "poruvant", "pprouvant", and "prouavnt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prouvent", "pouvait", "pouvant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prouvant, spelled P-R-O-U-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de prouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prouvant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout d’abord, Brigitte donna cinq cents francs par mois à son frère et conduisit la barque de manière que cinq mille francs défrayassent la maison ; elle accordait cinquante francs par moi à sa belle-sœur en lui prouvant qu’elle se contentait de quarante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- poruvant
- pprouvant
- prouavnt
- prouvannt
- prouvantt
- prouvatn
- prouvnat
- prouvvant
- provuant
- prrouvant
- pruovant
- rpouvant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prouvant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prouvant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).