provir
The verdict
“provir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,175 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,175
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - derivar de; advir de; ter sua origem em
Corpus desk
Index PT-provir · provir · Portuguese
provir · rank #93,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH proibitivo
Nearest frequency peer: proibitivo (-10 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “provir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- profícuo
profícuo
6,838 corpus weight
- proibitivo
proibitivo
6,836 corpus weight
- provir
provir
6,826 corpus weight
- rebite
rebite
6,804 corpus weight
- regicídio
regicídio
6,790 corpus weight
- registry
registry
6,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “provir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “provir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
provir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,175 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "derivar de; advir de; ter sua origem em".
No misspelling variants are generated for provir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is provir, spelled P-R-O-V-I-R.
Definition
- 1derivar de; advir de; ter sua origem em
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O produto deve provir de plantações e fábricas certificadas dentro dos mais exigentes padrões de proteção ao meio ambiente e de responsabilidade social.
This word in other languages
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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