provient
\pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\
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
- plomb
plomb
94,517 corpus weight
- possèdent
possèdent
94,515 corpus weight
- produite
produite
94,514 corpus weight
- provient
provient
94,512 corpus weight
- rapproche
rapproche
94,510 corpus weight
- rayons
rayons
94,509 corpus weight
What this shows « provient » 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 | provient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provient »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de provenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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).