Which to use
“prouvées” and “prouver” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,475
- “prouvées” frequency rank
- #2,443
- “prouver” frequency rank
- 41918
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prouvées | prouver |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de prouver. | Établir la vérité de quelque chose par le raisonnement ou par le témoignage. |
Same sound, different letters: prouvées vs prouver
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. prouvées runs 8 letters (CCVVCVVC) against prouver's 7 (CCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - prouvées and prouver
This is the hard kind. prouvées and prouver are pronounced identically (\pʁu.ve\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41918, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prouvées is recorded at frequency rank #39,475, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁu.ve\. prouver is at rank #2,443, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁu.ve\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 41918, this pair ranks #229,572 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of prouvées vs prouver
Shared letters: eopruv. Private to "prouvées": sé. Private to "prouver": -.
"prouvées" · 8 letters · shape CCVVCVVC · "prouver" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- prouver ← poruver · pprouver · prouevr · prouverr · prouvre · prouvver · provuer · prrouver
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "prouvées" for "prouver" ever safe?
Frequency check: "prouvées" vs "prouver" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "prouvées" / "prouver". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "prouvées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prouver" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #229,572 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prouvées" and "prouver" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prouvées vs prouvés". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #229,572 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.