provir
The verdict
“provir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,175 among 3,113 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,175
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - derivar de; advir de; ter sua origem em
| 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) |
Where “provir” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
provir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,175 among 3,113 “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
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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Using “provir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-V-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.