provençal
\pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\
The verdict
“provençal” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,533
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Provence, qui y habite ou en est originaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provencal · provençal · French
provençal · rank #20,533 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,533
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proue
Nearest frequency peer: proue (-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 « provençal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prestigieus…
prestigieuses
79,471 corpus weight
- prothèse
prothèse
79,470 corpus weight
- proue
proue
79,469 corpus weight
- provençal
provençal
79,468 corpus weight
- précisent
précisent
79,467 corpus weight
- préjugé
préjugé
79,466 corpus weight
What this shows « provençal » 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 | provençal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provençal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around provençal (IPA \pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,533 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la Provence, qui y habite ou en est originaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for provençal, with forms such as "porvençal", "pprovençal", and "proevnçal". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Provence", "provincial", "Provençale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 provençal, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-Ç-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Provence, qui y habite ou en est originaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provençal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jeune berger provençal.
La nef romane présente une disposition qui a été adoptée assez fréquemment dans les églises provençales et du bas Languedoc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvençal
- pprovençal
- proevnçal
- provenaçl
- provencal
- provennçal
- provençall
- provençla
- proveçnal
- provneçal
- provvençal
- prrovençal
- prvoençal
- rpovençal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provençal - 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
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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).