provinces
\pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\
The verdict
“provinces” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,213
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de province.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provinces · provinces · French
provinces · rank #3,213 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,213
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profondément
Nearest frequency peer: profondément (-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 « provinces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oreille
oreille
96,791 corpus weight
- parallèle
parallèle
96,790 corpus weight
- profondément
profondément
96,789 corpus weight
- provinces
provinces
96,788 corpus weight
- prêtre
prêtre
96,786 corpus weight
- pure
pure
96,785 corpus weight
What this shows « provinces » 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 | provinces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provinces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around provinces (IPA \pʁɔ.vɛ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,213 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de province.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for provinces, with forms such as "porvinces", "pprovinces", and "proivnces". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "provins", "princes", "province", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is provinces, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de province.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provinces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A part les Polonais catholiques, les protestants des provinces baltiques ou étrangers et quelques milliers de juifs, cette population coloniale, dans laquelle on compte en moyenne 9 hommes pour 10 femmes et beaucoup de centenaires, ne relève que de l’église russe et les divers éléments dont elle se compose se fondent de plus en plus non seulement entre eu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvinces
- pprovinces
- proivnces
- provicnes
- provincces
- provincess
- provincse
- provinecs
- provinnces
- provnices
- provvinces
- prrovinces
- prvoinces
- rpovinces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provinces - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).