Provence
\pʁɔ.vɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Provence” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,491
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien comté français devenu en 1481 une province royale française qui correspondrait aujourd’hui, au sens large, à une grande partie de la région administrative Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provence · Provence · French
Provence · rank #3,491 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,491
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prouve
Nearest frequency peer: prouve (-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 « Provence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pleurer
pleurer
96,514 corpus weight
- potes
potes
96,513 corpus weight
- prisonniers
prisonniers
96,512 corpus weight
- prouve
prouve
96,511 corpus weight
- Provence
Provence
96,510 corpus weight
- Q
Q
96,507 corpus weight
What this shows « Provence » 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 | Provence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Provence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Provence (IPA \pʁɔ.vɑ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,491 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Provence, with forms such as "porvence", "pprovence", and "proevnce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "province", "prudence", "proverbe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Provence, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien comté français devenu en 1481 une province royale française qui correspondrait aujourd’hui, au sens large, à une grande partie de la région administrative Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
- 2Ensemble des pays de la langue d’oc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Provence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des landes, des rocs stériles, çà et là une bande de pâturage aromatique et dru, quelques champs pierreux, partout des oliviers : on se croirait dans notre Provence.
Hors de Marseille et de la mer, cette Provence est lugubre à voir ; on dirait d’un pays brûlé, usé, rongé jusqu’à l’os par une civilisation détruite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvence
- pprovence
- proevnce
- provecne
- provencce
- provenec
- provennce
- provnece
- provvence
- prrovence
- prvoence
- rpovence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Provence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).