provenant
\pʁɔ.və.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“provenant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,560
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de provenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provenant · provenant · French
provenant · rank #3,560 · 14 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,560
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pratiquement
Nearest frequency peer: pratiquement (-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 « provenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pauvreté
pauvreté
96,444 corpus weight
- possession
possession
96,443 corpus weight
- pratiquement
pratiquement
96,442 corpus weight
- provenant
provenant
96,441 corpus weight
- prévue
prévue
96,440 corpus weight
- refuser
refuser
96,439 corpus weight
What this shows « provenant » 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 | provenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.və.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around provenant (IPA \pʁɔ.və.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,560 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de provenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for provenant, with forms such as "porvenant", "pprovenant", and "proevnant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prenant", "prônant", "provenait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is provenant, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de provenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ordre s’ouvre et les deux créanciers du défunt et de l’héritier, Primus et Secundus se trouvent en présence devant le juge-commissaire. Primus inscrit utilement, suivant l’art. 2111 du Code Napoléon (art. 2147 du Projet de la commission), vient expliquer au juge-commissaire dans sa demande en collocation, que la masse générale à distribuer entre les cr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvenant
- pprovenant
- proevnant
- proveannt
- provenannt
- provenantt
- provenatn
- provennant
- provennat
- provneant
- provvenant
- prrovenant
- prvoenant
- rpovenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provenant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "provenant", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).