Which to use
“provinciale” is a noun and “provinciales” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #9,899
- “provinciale” frequency rank
- #14,335
- “provinciales” frequency rank
- 24234
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | provinciale | provinciales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Supérieure générale d'un ordre religieux qui a inspection sur toutes les maisons d’une province de son ordre. | Féminin pluriel de provincial. |
Same sound, different letters: provinciale vs provinciales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. provinciale runs 11 letters (CCVCVCCVVCV) against provinciales's 12 (CCVCVCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - provinciale and provinciales
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: provinciale and provinciales carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “provinciale” sits inside “provinciales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24234, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
provinciale is recorded at frequency rank #9,899, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\. provinciales is at rank #14,335, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\.
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 24234, this pair ranks #347,776 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of provinciale vs provinciales
Shared letters: aceilnoprv. Private to "provinciale": -. Private to "provinciales": s.
"provinciale" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCV · "provinciales" · 12 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- provinciale ← porvinciale · pprovinciale · proivnciale · provicniale · provincaile · provincciale · provinciael · provincialle
- provinciales ← porvinciales · pprovinciales · proivnciales · provicniales · provincailes · provincciales · provinciaels · provincialess
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "provinciale" for "provinciales" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "provinciale" or "provinciales" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "provinciale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "provinciales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #347,776 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "provinciale" and "provinciales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Provençale vs provinciale". 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 #347,776 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.