provocatrices
\pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.tʁis\
The verdict
“provocatrices” is uncommon French (frequency #80,545 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,545
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de provocateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provocatrices · provocatrices · French
provocatrices · rank #80,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,545
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH provo
Nearest frequency peer: provo (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « provocatrices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prolifère
prolifère
19,459 corpus weight
- prophétisé
prophétisé
19,458 corpus weight
- provo
provo
19,457 corpus weight
- provocatric…
provocatrices
19,456 corpus weight
- prédisposé
prédisposé
19,454 corpus weight
- prémontrés
prémontrés
19,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « provocatrices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provocatrices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #80,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « provocatrices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
provocatrices is uncommon French at frequency #80,545 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de provocateur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for provocatrices, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is provocatrices, spelled P-R-O-V-O-C-A-T-R-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de provocateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provocatrices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
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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