provoquant
\pʁɔ.vɔ.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“provoquant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,559
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe ancienne de provocant (qui provoque, choquant), qui a été usuelle jusqu’à 1880 environ, et est encore parfois rencontrée (mais pas à recommander).
Corpus desk
Index FR-provoquant · provoquant · French
provoquant · rank #10,559 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,559
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protagonistes
Nearest frequency peer: protagonistes (-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 « provoquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- projections
projections
89,445 corpus weight
- propice
propice
89,444 corpus weight
- protagonist…
protagonistes
89,443 corpus weight
- provoquant
provoquant
89,442 corpus weight
- préalableme…
préalablement
89,441 corpus weight
- préparez
préparez
89,440 corpus weight
What this shows « provoquant » 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 | provoquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɔ.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provoquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around provoquant (IPA \pʁɔ.vɔ.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,559 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Orthographe ancienne de provocant (qui provoque, choquant), qui a été usuelle jusqu’à 1880 environ, et est encore parfois rencontrée (mais pas à recommander).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for provoquant, with forms such as "porvoquant", "pprovoquant", and "proovquant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "provoquent", "provoqua", "provoquait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 provoquant, spelled P-R-O-V-O-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Orthographe ancienne de provocant (qui provoque, choquant), qui a été usuelle jusqu’à 1880 environ, et est encore parfois rencontrée (mais pas à recommander).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provoquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« […] Ce spot commercial illustre ce débat avec des exemples variés et provoquants », a-t-il confié au site utalmarketing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvoquant
- pprovoquant
- proovquant
- provoqaunt
- provoqquant
- provoquannt
- provoquantt
- provoquatn
- provoqunat
- provouqant
- provqouant
- provvoquant
- prrovoquant
- prvooquant
- rpovoquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provoquant - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).