provoqué

\pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\

/\pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\/ verb

The verdict

“provoqué” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,909
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe provoquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-provoque · provoqué · French

provoqué · rank #5,909 · 12 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,909
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH professionnel…

Nearest frequency peer: professionnelles (-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 « provoqué »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « provoqué » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

provoqué vs provoquer
78% similar
provoqué vs provoquée
89% similar
provoqué vs provoqués
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for provoqué
PropertyValue
Headwordprovoqué
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,909
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provoqué »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).provoquése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « professionnelles » (#5,908), « prêter » (#5,910), « plaine » (#5,907). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « provoqué » est au #5,909. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around provoqué (IPA \pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,909 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe provoquer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for provoqué, with forms such as "porvoqué", "pprovoqué", and "proovqué". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "provoquer", "provoquée", "provoqués", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is provoqué, spelled P-R-O-V-O-Q-U-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe provoquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how provoqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La cosmogonie, cette réflexion sur les processus et les causalités qui ont provoqué l’existence du monde est un des sujets centraux du ZoHaR et de la doctrine kabbalistique en général.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porvoqué
  • pprovoqué
  • proovqué
  • provoqqué
  • provoque
  • provoqéu
  • provouqé
  • provqoué
  • provvoqué
  • prrovoqué
  • prvooqué
  • rpovoqué

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of provoqué - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

porvoqué2pprovoqué1proovqué2provoqqué1provoque1provoqéu2provouqé2provqoué2
Edit distance from "provoqué"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "provoqué"?
"provoqué" is spelled P-R-O-V-O-Q-U-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\.
What does "provoqué" mean?
As a verb, "provoqué" means: Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe provoquer.
What words are commonly confused with "provoqué"?
"provoqué" is commonly confused with "provoquer", "provoquée", "provoqués". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "provoqué"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "provoqué" is \pʁɔ.vɔ.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "provoqué" come from?
"provoqué" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "provoqué", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list