provision
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,380
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
provision is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion, faite par prévoyance, de choses nécessaires ou utiles, soit pour la subsistance d’une maison, d’une ville, d’une province, soit pour la défense d’une place de guerre. Pronounced \pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\. Often confused with provisions and prévision.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provision |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for provision is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,380 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for provision, with forms such as "porvision", "pprovision", and "proivsion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "provisions", "prévision", "profusion", 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 provision, spelled P-R-O-V-I-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réunion, faite par prévoyance, de choses nécessaires ou utiles, soit pour la subsistance d’une maison, d’une ville, d’une province, soit pour la défense d’une place de guerre.
- 2Réserve, quantité, dose, en parlant des choses morales.
- 3Ce qui est adjugé préalablement à une partie, en attendant le jugement définitif, et sans préjudice des droits réciproques au principal.
- 4Somme remise en acompte à un mandataire pour couvrir les premiers frais d’une opération, d’un procès, etc.
- 5Somme déposée entre les mains de celui sur qui une lettre de change ou un chèque est tiré et qui doit suffire à en opérer le paiement.
- 6Passif dont l'échéance ou le montant n'est pas fixé de façon précise.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porvision,pprovision,proivsion,proviison,provisino,provisionn,provisoin,provission,provsiion,provvision,prrovision,prvoision,rpovision
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for provision
Misspelling Variants of "provision"
Frequency rank: #22,380 in French
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