provenance
\pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“provenance” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,391
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Origine, endroit d’où provient une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provenance · provenance · French
provenance · rank #5,391 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,391
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH priori
Nearest frequency peer: priori (-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 « provenance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pouce
pouce
94,613 corpus weight
- primaires
primaires
94,612 corpus weight
- priori
priori
94,611 corpus weight
- provenance
provenance
94,610 corpus weight
- refuge
refuge
94,609 corpus weight
- reposer
reposer
94,608 corpus weight
What this shows « provenance » 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 | provenance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provenance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around provenance (IPA \pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,391 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for provenance, with forms such as "porvenance", "pprovenance", and "proevnance". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Provence", "provenant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 provenance, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Origine, endroit d’où provient une chose.
- 2(s’emploie surtout au pluriel) Tout ce qui provient d’un pays, tout ce qui est transporté d’un pays dans un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provenance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ampoule, qui éclairait cette dégringolade d’objets de toute provenance […] se balançait poussiéreuse, au bout de son fil, sous la voûte basse où le salpêtre faisait des croûtes.
La variante sur le Hodna, baptisée Etincelle, visait à couper l'approvisionnement des katibas de Kabylie en provenance de Tunisie par le Hodna et les Aurès.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvenance
- pprovenance
- proevnance
- proveannce
- provenacne
- provenancce
- provenanec
- provenannce
- provennace
- provennance
- provneance
- provvenance
- prrovenance
- prvoenance
- rpovenance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provenance - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).