Which to use
“provision” and “provisions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,380
- “provision” frequency rank
- #12,455
- “provisions” frequency rank
- 34835
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | provision | provisions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Réunion, faite par prévoyance, de choses nécessaires ou utiles, soit pour la subsistance d’une maison, d’une ville, d’une province, soit pour la défense d’une place de guerre. | Pluriel de provision. |
Same sound, different letters: provision vs provisions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - provision and provisions
This is the hard kind. provision and provisions are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. 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 extra letter(s) - “provision” sits inside “provisions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34835, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
provision is recorded at frequency rank #22,380, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\. provisions is at rank #12,455, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃\.
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 34835, this pair ranks #281,000 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of provision vs provisions
Shared letters: inoprsv. Private to "provision": -. Private to "provisions": -.
"provision" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVVC · "provisions" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- provision ← porvision · pprovision · proivsion · proviison · provisino · provisionn · provisoin · provission
- provisions ← porvisions · pprovisions · proivsions · proviisons · provisinos · provisionns · provisionss · provisiosn
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "provision" and "provisions" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "provision" or "provisions"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "provision" / "provisions". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "provision" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "provisions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #281,000 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "provision" and "provisions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "precision vs provision". 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 #281,000 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.