provinciale
\pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\
The verdict
“provinciale” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,899
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supérieure générale d'un ordre religieux qui a inspection sur toutes les maisons d’une province de son ordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provinciale · provinciale · French
provinciale · rank #9,899 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,899
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prostituées
Nearest frequency peer: prostituées (-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 « provinciale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prononcée
prononcée
90,104 corpus weight
- prostituées
prostituées
90,103 corpus weight
- provinciale
provinciale
90,102 corpus weight
- prédécesseur
prédécesseur
90,101 corpus weight
- puy
puy
90,100 corpus weight
- périphérie
périphérie
90,099 corpus weight
What this shows « provinciale » 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 | provinciale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provinciale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around provinciale (IPA \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,899 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Supérieure générale d'un ordre religieux qui a inspection sur toutes les maisons d’une province de son ordre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for provinciale, with forms such as "porvinciale", "pprovinciale", and "proivnciale". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "provinciaux", "provinciales", "provincial", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 provinciale, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Supérieure générale d'un ordre religieux qui a inspection sur toutes les maisons d’une province de son ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provinciale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sensible depuis longtemps aux « périphéries », ayant travaillé pendant plusieurs années auprès des jeunes délinquants, la religieuse, ancienne doyenne de la faculté de théologie d’Angers et provinciale depuis 2013 de sa congrégation, celle des Sœurs de charité dominicaines de la Présentation, a beaucoup étudié les « grandes questions existentielles, la so…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvinciale
- pprovinciale
- proivnciale
- provicniale
- provincaile
- provincciale
- provinciael
- provincialle
- provincilae
- provinicale
- provinnciale
- provniciale
- provvinciale
- prrovinciale
- prvoinciale
- rpovinciale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provinciale - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provinciale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).