live
[laɪ̯f]
The verdict
“live” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #1,015 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,015
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - direkt ohne Veränderungen und Verzögerungen (an ein Publikum) wiedergebend
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | live |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [laɪ̯f] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “live” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for live is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [laɪ̯f]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,015 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "direkt ohne Veränderungen und Verzögerungen (an ein Publikum) wiedergebend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for live, with forms such as "ilve", "liev", and "livve". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lv", "LTE", "LVL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is live, spelled L-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1direkt ohne Veränderungen und Verzögerungen (an ein Publikum) wiedergebend
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilve,liev,livve,llive,lvie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of live - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “live”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [laɪ̯f] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Lv” - see the side-by-side comparison. live vs Lv
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.