provenait

\pʁɔ.və.nɛ\

/\pʁɔ.və.nɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « provenait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

provenait vs provenir
78% similar
provenait vs provenant
89% similar
provenait vs prenait
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for provenait
PropertyValue
Headwordprovenait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.və.nɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,992
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provenait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).provenaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « progressent » (#23,991), « provocateur » (#23,993), « programmeur » (#23,990). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « provenait » est au #23,992. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de provenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how provenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

porvenait2pprovenait1proevnait2proveanit2provenaitt1provenati2proveniat2provennait1
Edit distance from "provenait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "provenait"?
"provenait" is spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.və.nɛ\.
What does "provenait" mean?
As a verb, "provenait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de provenir.
What words are commonly confused with "provenait"?
"provenait" is commonly confused with "provenir", "provenant", "prenait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "provenait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "provenait" is \pʁɔ.və.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "provenait" come from?
"provenait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list