provost

noun

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The verdict

“provost” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,468
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de prevost.

Corpus desk

Index FR-provost · provost · French

provost · rank #41,468 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,468
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH provençaux

Nearest frequency peer: provençaux (-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 « provost »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « provost » 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).

provost vs Prost
57% similar
provost vs propos
71% similar
provost vs Proust
57% similar

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

Key facts for provost
PropertyValue
Headwordprovost
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,468
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « provost »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.provostse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « provençaux » (#41,467), « prudhomme » (#41,469), « protectrices » (#41,466). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « provost » est au #41,468. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around provost, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,468 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de prevost.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for provost, with forms such as "porvost", "pprovost", and "proovst". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Prost", "propos", "Proust", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is provost, spelled P-R-O-V-O-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de prevost.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. E se alquen, u quens, u provost, mesfeïst…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porvost
  • pprovost
  • proovst
  • provosst
  • provostt
  • provots
  • provsot
  • provvost
  • prrovost
  • prvoost
  • rpovost

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

porvost2pprovost1proovst2provosst1provostt1provots2provsot2provvost1
Edit distance from "provost"

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 "provost"?
"provost" is spelled P-R-O-V-O-S-T.
What does "provost" mean?
As a noun, "provost" means: Variante de prevost.
What words are commonly confused with "provost"?
"provost" is commonly confused with "Prost", "propos", "Proust". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "provost" come from?
"provost" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prompte#41,464pommeau#41,460poindre#41,458podemos#41,457

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

rajoutez11 variantsrangent11 variantsPalaiseau11 variantsrepassage11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list