provenait
\pʁɔ.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“provenait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,992. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,992
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de provenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provenait · provenait · French
provenait · rank #23,992 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH progressent
Nearest frequency peer: progressent (-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 « provenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- processeurs
processeurs
76,012 corpus weight
- programmeur
programmeur
76,011 corpus weight
- progressent
progressent
76,010 corpus weight
- provenait
provenait
76,009 corpus weight
- provocateur
provocateur
76,008 corpus weight
- prémices
prémices
76,006 corpus weight
What this shows « provenait » 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 | provenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around provenait (IPA \pʁɔ.və.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,992 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de provenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for provenait, with forms such as "porvenait", "pprovenait", and "proevnait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "provenir", "provenant", "prenait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 provenait, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de provenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le principal défaut provenait de ce fait que les « papiers » écrits à l’avance, généralement trop longs, ne répondaient pas à cette nécessité de « déblablater » les interventions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvenait
- pprovenait
- proevnait
- proveanit
- provenaitt
- provenati
- proveniat
- provennait
- provneait
- provvenait
- prrovenait
- prvoenait
- rpovenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provenait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "provenait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).