prouvent
\pʁuv\
The verdict
“prouvent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,278
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de prouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prouvent · prouvent · French
prouvent · rank #11,278 · 12 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,278
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protégées
Nearest frequency peer: protégées (-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 « prouvent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promise
promise
88,726 corpus weight
- prototype
prototype
88,725 corpus weight
- protégées
protégées
88,724 corpus weight
- prouvent
prouvent
88,723 corpus weight
- précieuses
précieuses
88,722 corpus weight
- Pétersbourg
Pétersbourg
88,721 corpus weight
What this shows « prouvent » 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 | prouvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁuv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prouvent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prouvent (IPA \pʁuv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,278 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prouvent, with forms such as "poruvent", "pprouvent", and "prouevnt". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "prouver", "prudent", "prouvez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prouvent, spelled P-R-O-U-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de prouver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de prouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prouvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les allusions à la chèvre de votre fille, le libellé exact des adresses (Gassin guetta une confirmation que Serruzier lui accorda d’un signe de tête) prouvent que l’anonymographe — oui, c’est ainsi que cela s’appelle — connaissait votre fille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- poruvent
- pprouvent
- prouevnt
- prouvennt
- prouventt
- prouvetn
- prouvnet
- prouvvent
- provuent
- prrouvent
- pruovent
- rpouvent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prouvent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "prouvent", 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).