provenances
\pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“provenances” is uncommon French (frequency #65,432 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,432
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de provenance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provenances · provenances · French
provenances · rank #65,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,432
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protestataire
Nearest frequency peer: protestataire (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « provenances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- projetaient
projetaient
34,572 corpus weight
- pron
pron
34,571 corpus weight
- protestatai…
protestataire
34,570 corpus weight
- provenances
provenances
34,569 corpus weight
- préférables
préférables
34,568 corpus weight
- préméditée
préméditée
34,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « provenances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provenances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « provenances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
provenances is uncommon French at frequency #65,432 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔv.nɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de provenance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for provenances, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is provenances, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de provenance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provenances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’implantation de tests de provenances reste un outil indispensable d’étude en génétique des arbres.
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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