provide
\pʁɔ.vid\
The verdict
“provide” is uncommon French (frequency #75,115 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,115
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prévoyant, qui prévoit, qui a le caractère de la prévoyance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provide · provide · French
provide · rank #75,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,115
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prospecteur
Nearest frequency peer: prospecteur (-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 « provide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prolo
prolo
24,889 corpus weight
- prononciati…
prononciations
24,888 corpus weight
- prospecteur
prospecteur
24,887 corpus weight
- provide
provide
24,886 corpus weight
- préconisati…
préconisation
24,884 corpus weight
- prétendantes
prétendantes
24,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « provide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « provide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
provide is uncommon French at frequency #75,115 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.vid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prévoyant, qui prévoit, qui a le caractère de la prévoyance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for provide, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 provide, spelled P-R-O-V-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Prévoyant, qui prévoit, qui a le caractère de la prévoyance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how provide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le père donne en partant les provides leçons.
Nobles, généreux, provides et honorables messieurs les nobles, les citoyens et les bourgeois.
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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