province
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,339
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
province is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étendue de pays qui fait partie d’un État et qui possède plusieurs villes, bourgs, villages, etc., sous un même gouvernement. Pronounced \pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\. It ranks #1,339 in French word frequency. Often confused with provins and provinces.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | province |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for province is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,339 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for province, with forms such as "porvince", "pprovince", and "proivnce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "provins", "provinces", "prince", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is province, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étendue de pays qui fait partie d’un État et qui possède plusieurs villes, bourgs, villages, etc., sous un même gouvernement.
- 2Les habitants d’une province.
- 3Le reste du pays par opposition à la capitale, en parlant de la France.
- 4La province par opposition à la capitale avec un aspect péjoratif.
- 5Les habitants des provinces en général.
- 6Étendue de la juridiction d’une métropole, dans l’ancienne circonscription ecclésiastique de la France ; province ecclésiastique.
- 7Ensemble de monastères soumis à la direction d’un même supérieur, appelé provincial.
- 8Division administrative du pays, équivalent de département en France.
- 9Pays conquis assujetti aux lois du conquérant et administré par un gouverneur.
- 10Nom d'une sorte de division de l'Empire britannique, plus tard remplacée par des dominions plus autonomes contenant une ou plusieurs anciennes provinces.
- 11État doté d’un gouvernement élu et faisant partie de la fédération canadienne.
- 12Division administrative de premier niveau au Burundi (comprend des communes).
- 13Vaste territoire qui présente une certaine unité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porvince,pprovince,proivnce,provicne,provincce,provinec,provinnce,provnice,provvince,prrovince,prvoince,rpovince
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for province
Misspelling Variants of "province"
Frequency rank: #1,339 in French
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