prova
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
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prova is aFrenchnoun. It means: Test, essai, examen, épreuve de solidité, de pérennité, d’adéquation. Pronounced \ˈprɔ.va\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prova |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈprɔ.va\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prova is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈprɔ.va\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prova in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prova, spelled P-R-O-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Test, essai, examen, épreuve de solidité, de pérennité, d’adéquation.
- 2Test, essai, opération que l’on fait pour vérifier la véracité d’une hypothèse ou d’un fait.
- 3Test, essai, opération de vérification des propriétés réelles d’un produit.
- 4Tentative, action par laquelle on tente, on essaie de faire réussir quelque chose.
- 5Preuve, ce qui établit la véracité d’une proposition ou d’un fait.
- 6Répétition, action de répéter, d’essayer en particulier certaines choses, pour les mieux prononcer ou exécuter en public.
- 7Démonstration, marque, témoignage, toute parole, tout acte par lequel on manifeste ses dispositions, ses intentions.
- 8Épreuve, partie d'examen ou de concours ; compétition sportive.
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