provenir
\pʁɔv.niʁ\
The verdict
“provenir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,116
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Procéder ; venir ; dériver ; résulter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provenir · provenir · French
provenir · rank #19,116 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prohibition
Nearest frequency peer: prohibition (-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 « provenir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prisonnière
prisonnière
80,888 corpus weight
- procuration
procuration
80,887 corpus weight
- prohibition
prohibition
80,886 corpus weight
- provenir
provenir
80,885 corpus weight
- précédée
précédée
80,884 corpus weight
- prématurée
prématurée
80,883 corpus weight
What this shows « provenir » 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 | provenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔv.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provenir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around provenir (IPA \pʁɔv.niʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,116 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Procéder ; venir ; dériver ; résulter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for provenir, with forms such as "porvenir", "pprovenir", and "proevnir". 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", "parvenir", "promener", 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 provenir, spelled P-R-O-V-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Procéder ; venir ; dériver ; résulter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provenir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’accablement particulier qui l’oppressait ne provenait pas tant d’une anxiété patriotique que de la faim ; évidemment, il se sentait très affamé.
Nous ne parlons pas des trous, ni des taches, ni de la guenille qui provient de porter un vêtement jour et nuit et d'en arracher les pans, au petit matin, à la gueule des chiens de berger !…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvenir
- pprovenir
- proevnir
- proveinr
- provenirr
- provennir
- provenri
- provneir
- provvenir
- prrovenir
- prvoenir
- rpovenir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provenir - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provenir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).