provençales
\pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\
The verdict
“provençales” is uncommon French (frequency #54,811 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,811
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de provençal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provencales · provençales · French
provençales · rank #54,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,811
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH properties
Nearest frequency peer: properties (-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 « provençales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prohibitifs
prohibitifs
45,193 corpus weight
- promettez
promettez
45,192 corpus weight
- properties
properties
45,191 corpus weight
- provençales
provençales
45,190 corpus weight
- précitées
précitées
45,189 corpus weight
- préventions
préventions
45,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « provençales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provençales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « provençales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
provençales is uncommon French at frequency #54,811 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.vɑ̃.sal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de provençal.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for provençales, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is provençales, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-Ç-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de provençal.
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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