provinciaux
\pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjo\
The verdict
“provinciaux” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,841
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de provincial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provinciaux · provinciaux · French
provinciaux · rank #12,841 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,841
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH project
Nearest frequency peer: project (-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 « provinciaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prairie
prairie
87,163 corpus weight
- produisant
produisant
87,162 corpus weight
- project
project
87,161 corpus weight
- provinciaux
provinciaux
87,160 corpus weight
- provoquent
provoquent
87,159 corpus weight
- précédant
précédant
87,158 corpus weight
What this shows « provinciaux » 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 | provinciaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjo\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provinciaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around provinciaux (IPA \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,841 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de provincial.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for provinciaux, with forms such as "porvinciaux", "pprovinciaux", and "proivnciaux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "provincial", "provençaux", "provinciale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is provinciaux, spelled P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de provincial.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvinciaux
- pprovinciaux
- proivnciaux
- provicniaux
- provincaiux
- provincciaux
- provinciauxx
- provinciaxu
- provinciuax
- provinicaux
- provinnciaux
- provniciaux
- provvinciaux
- prrovinciaux
- prvoinciaux
- rpovinciaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provinciaux - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provinciaux", 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).