provocations
\pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“provocations” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,663
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de provocation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provocations · provocations · French
provocations · rank #22,663 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,663
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projetée
Nearest frequency peer: projetée (-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 « provocations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- productifs
productifs
77,341 corpus weight
- profitons
profitons
77,340 corpus weight
- projetée
projetée
77,339 corpus weight
- provocations
provocations
77,338 corpus weight
- prédicateur
prédicateur
77,337 corpus weight
- préparées
préparées
77,336 corpus weight
What this shows « provocations » 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 | provocations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #22,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provocations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around provocations (IPA \pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,663 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de provocation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for provocations, with forms such as "porvocations", "pprovocations", and "proovcations". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "provocation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 provocations, spelled P-R-O-V-O-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de provocation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provocations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi, frères humains qui après moi vivrez et avez acheté ces pages sur un quiproquo, n’ayez le cœur contre mes provocations endurci, mais, comme il faut qu’il y ait de l’opposition en toute chose, défliquez et, l’adversité par corollaire disparaissant automatiquement, vous pacifierez du même coup !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvocations
- pprovocations
- proovcations
- provcoations
- provoactions
- provocaitons
- provocatinos
- provocationns
- provocationss
- provocatiosn
- provocatoins
- provocattions
- provoccations
- provoctaions
- provvocations
- prrovocations
- prvoocations
- rpovocations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provocations - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).