provient

\pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\

/\pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“provient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,489
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de provenir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-provient · provient · French

provient · rank #5,489 · 12 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,489
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH produite

Nearest frequency peer: produite (-2 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 « provient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « provient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

provient vs provins
75% similar
provient vs prient
75% similar
provient vs prônent
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for provient
PropertyValue
Headwordprovient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,489
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provient »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).provientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « produite » (#5,487), « rapproche » (#5,491), « possèdent » (#5,486). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « provient » est au #5,489. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around provient (IPA \pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,489 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de provenir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for provient, with forms such as "porvient", "pprovient", and "proivent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "provins", "prient", "prônent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 provient, spelled P-R-O-V-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de provenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how provient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On dit ainsi en francique rhénan dat és nét kauscher (cela n’est pas cacher) « ce n’est pas correct, pas régulier », ou alles nur Kalaumes (tout seulement rêves) « tout cela n’est que bêtises », emprunt qui provient de l’hébreu halom « rêve », yidichisé et pluralisé en chlomès.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porvient
  • pprovient
  • proivent
  • proveint
  • proviennt
  • provientt
  • provietn
  • provinet
  • provvient
  • prrovient
  • prvoient
  • rpovient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

porvient2pprovient1proivent2proveint2proviennt1provientt1provietn2provinet2
Edit distance from "provient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "provient"?
"provient" is spelled P-R-O-V-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\.
What does "provient" mean?
As a verb, "provient" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de provenir.
What words are commonly confused with "provient"?
"provient" is commonly confused with "provins", "prient", "prônent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "provient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "provient" is \pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "provient" come from?
"provient" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provient", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list